North Korea to further nuclear tests in 2013?

Anxiety hovers around North Korea. After completing its third nuclear test last Tuesday, Pyongyang could increase its tests even during the year 2013.

A new earthquake prediction? On Tuesday, an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale was felt on the side of North Korea. And, according to information revealed by a source close to the case, it may well take place again in the coming months.

Cited by Reuters, the source close to Pyongyang and Beijing includes ensuring that North Korea had warned China of its intention to carry out further nuclear tests shortly. Tests that could be accompanied by a rocket launch, as was the case last December.

An activity that oppose Beijing, yet historic ally of Pyongyang. The source close to the government ensures that China will continue to support UN sanctions against the nuclear tests.

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North Korea (Photo: © 2012 DigitalGlobe, Inc.).

Fourth and fifth nuclear test would thus forecasting. Several satellite images, published Friday by the specialized site 38North show that activity continues on a site North Korean rocket.

After 2006 and 2009, the establishment of a third trial, Tuesday, intensifying the policy of strengthening nuclear advocated by the North Korean regime. This power could even be illustrated in the next test since we're talking an explosion estimated ten kilotons, half of which was used to Hiroshima in 1945.

Pyongyang then reiterates his desire to influence the diplomatic position of the United States, considering the U.S., as for wanting to change the North Korean regime in place.

If it remains in conflict with their American counterparts and South Korean totalitarian regime led by Kim Jong-un, would the establishment of a final peace agreement with Washington to establish diplomatic relations between the two countries, as entrusts this source.

"A strategy of extortion," Pascal Boniface

For its part, Pascal Boniface, director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS), notes the willingness of North Korea to get noticed by the United States to negotiate.

"When Barack Obama began a second term, the North Koreans want to show they are there, it takes care of them. They upped the ante a bit and then make a conciliatory gesture, hoping to get help. This is called a strategy of extortion, "he said on Tuesday in an interview on Radio-Canada antennas.

However, he sees no possible in this world upheaval nuclear activity. "North Korea knows that if she uses that nuclear weapon, it would itself be wiped off the map. Contrary to what it says North Korean propaganda, it is not the security of the country that you want to protect, it is the security of the regime, "explains Pascal Boniface.

A kind of delicate balance in order to maintain the totalitarian system to lead the country. The repetition of these tests nuclear deterrence as attempts for negotiations was there to prove it.