As I predicted on this blog back on March 16 (Taepodon Trigger #3: DPRK to attempt 3rd Satellite Shot- Third Time Lucky?) and March 18 (Taepodon Trigger #3: Update)  the DPRK is likely to follow up its satellite launch with a third nuclear test.

The test is a necessary part of the military circenses (sans the panem, pity the poor long-suffering Korean people) to usher in the Kim Jong-un fronted era with a celebartory big bang and fireworks, DPRK-style.
This according to Reuters:

North Korea, pressing ahead with a rocket launch in defiance of a UN resolution, is also preparing a third nuclear weapons test, South Korean news reports said on Sunday…

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted an unidentified intelligence source as saying North Korea was “clandestinely preparing a nuclear test” at the same location as the first two.

The source added that workers in the destitute North had been seen in commercial satellite images digging a tunnel in the northeastern town of Punggye-ri, Kilju County, in addition to existing mines believed to have been used for tests in 2006 and 2009.

Here is an interesting take on the whole thing by none other than Henry Kissinger: North Korea’s Nuclear Challenge on ihavenet.com.