PYONGYANG - A new study has found that North Korea may have

triggered a rise in earthquakes near its main nuclear test site after its

last nuclear tests in 2017.  According to a seismic wave data study backed by the National Science Foundation of China and the National Research Foundation of Korea and published Thursday, scientists detected 1,399 earthquakes around Mount Mantap from 2008 to 2025. Coincidentally, this is where North Korea executed six underground nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017. Nuclear weapons testing, such as tests conducted in Nevada during the Cold War, has been known to cause small, short-lived earthquakes. The findings in Korea are unusual given that earthquakes linked to nuclear explosions do not tend to increase for years after a test.