The Democratic¹ People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday blew up the tunnels of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site located in the northeast of the country, and officially announced its dismantlement².

 

朝鲜周四炸掉了位于国内东北地区丰溪里核试验场的地下隧道。

 

The three tunnels of the test site were blown up by 16:00 local time (0700 GMT), according to Xinhua reporters on site.

 

Pyongyang invited overseas journalists from China, Russia, the United States and Britain to witness the site's dismantlement.

 

Following the explosion³, the DPRK will remove all observation facilities and research institutes, withdraw⁴ guards and completely close the surrounding testing area.

 

The DPRK conducted six nuclear tests at Punggye-ri between October 2006 and September 2017.

 

The Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea made the decision last month that the country will discontinue its nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic rocket test-fire from April 21, according to an earlier report from the official Korean Central News Agency⁵.

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