South Korea says no new signs North preparing nuclear test

SEOUL – South Korea clarified Monday it had seen no fresh signs of North Korea preparing a fourth nuclear test, after earlier saying that activity was intensifying at the communist state’s main atomic site.

“There are activities” at the North’s Punggye-ri test site, but they “appear to be usual routine activities,” Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok said. The Unification Ministry said another test did not appear to be “imminent.”