North Korea nuclear testing

This file handout picture from the French space agency CNES, Airbus Defense and Space and the 38 North analysis group, shows a satellite image taken on April 12 of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site. Picture: AFP NORTH Korea’s provocative nuclear testing may not necessarily lead to war. But there may be another catastrophic risk: the mountain beneath which it has exploded six bombs may be on the point of collapse. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post is quoting a Chinese scientist as saying if the peak crumbles, clouds of radioactive dust and gas will blanket the region. At the heart of the fears is the Punggye-ri test site in the rogue-nation’s northeast. It’s carved deep into the side of Mount Mantap. This is a nondescript granite peak in the remote and heavily forested Hamgyong mountain range about 80km from Chongjin, the nearest big city.