North Korea planning another nuclear test

It’s not stopping with a planned, controversial rocket launch set this month.  Intelligence reports from South Korea say its maverick neighbor is planning a nuclear test in the same area where it has carried out atomic blasts in 2006 and 2009, violating a 2005 agreement that it would abandon its nuclear ambitions.  The United States is calling the rocket launch which may happen as early as this week “a very provocative act that would be, if it were conducted, done in direct violation of North Korea’s international obligations.”  Japan announced it’s preparing its missile defense system.  

Read more about the rocket launch on Rappler and about the nuclear test on CNN.