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North Korea was ready to conduct a nuclear test in April but postponed it under pressure from China. Satellite images showed evidence. U.S. officials now see similar signs of activity that could lead to a sixth underground nuclear test. (Associated Press/File)
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This satellite image released and notated by Airbus Defense & Space and 38 North on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, shows the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea. (Airbus Defense & Space/38 North/Pleiades CNES/Spot Image via AP)
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This satellite image released and notated by Airbus Defense & Space and 38 North on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, shows the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea. (Airbus Defense & Space/38 North/Pleiades CNES/Spot Image via AP)
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This satellite image released and notated by Airbus Defense & Space and 38 North on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, shows the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea. (Airbus Defense & Space/38 North/Pleiades CNES/Spot Image via AP)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, American medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, in Bartella, Iraq. Situated on the outskirts of Mosul, the state-of-the-art field clinic was set up last December by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Its volunteer doctors receive those with the gravest injuries from the field clinics inside or at the very edge of Mosul, where casualties are initially treated. (AP Photo/Tomislav Skaro)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, American medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, at the the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital, in Bartella, Iraq. Situated on the outskirts of Mosul, the state-of-the-art field clinic was set up last December by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Its volunteer doctors receive those with the gravest injuries from the field clinics inside or at the very edge of Mosul, where casualties are initially treated. (AP Photo/Tomislav Skaro)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, American medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, at the the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital, in Bartella, Iraq. Situated on the outskirts of Mosul, the state-of-the-art field clinic was set up last December by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Its volunteer doctors receive those with the gravest injuries from the field clinics inside or at the very edge of Mosul, where casualties are initially treated. (AP Photo/Tomislav Skaro)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, American medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, at the the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital, in Bartella, Iraq. Situated on the outskirts of Mosul, the state-of-the-art field clinic was set up last December by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Its volunteer doctors receive those with the gravest injuries from the field clinics inside or at the very edge of Mosul, where casualties are initially treated. (AP Photo/Tomislav Skaro)
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Clifford Town Marshall Charlie DeWeese talks on his phone as the Columbus Fire Department's Emergency Services unit leaves the scene of a plane crash near 20950 E. County Road 200N in Hartsville, Ind., Wednesday, April 12, 2017. The pilot was pronounced dead at the scene. (Mike Wolanin /The Republic via AP)
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Emergency personnel work the scene of a plane crash near 20950 E. County Road 200N in Hartsville, Ind., Wednesday, April 12, 2017. The pilot was pronounced dead at the scene. (Mike Wolanin /The Republic via AP)
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A Bartholomew County Sheriff Matt Myers updates members of the media on a plane crash near 20950 E. County Road 200N in Hartsville, Ind., Wednesday, April 12, 2017. The pilot was pronounced dead at the scene. (Mike Wolanin /The Republic via AP)
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A Bartholomew County Sheriff Matt Myers updates members of the media on a plane crash near 20950 E. County Road 200N in Hartsville, Ind., Wednesday, April 12, 2017. The pilot was pronounced dead at the scene. (Mike Wolanin /The Republic via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department, it shows a small plane that crashed Wednesday, April 12, 2017 in Hartsville, Ind. The pilot was killed in the crash. (Bartholomew Sheriff's Department via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2015 file photo, a message covers the side window of a sports utility vehicle about the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old woman by Denver Police Department officers while mourners visit the site of the shooting in an alleyway in northeast Denver. The woman, Jessica Hernandez, died when she allegedly drove a stolen vehicle at officers in the alleyway. On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, Denver officials agreed to pay nearly $1 million to the family of Hernandez. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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CORRECTS DESCRIPTION OF CABIN - In this photo taken March 30, 2017, skis rest against the side of the Onion Valley snow survey cabin in Inyo National Forest, near Independence, Calif. where members of a California Cooperative Snow Survey team spent the night. The cabin built in the 1980s to replace one destroyed by an avalanche provides bare necessities, including a wood-burning stove, a sleeping loft and two lockers stocked with canned and packaged food. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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FILE- In this Aug. 16, 2015 file photo, investigators examine the scene where one person died and another was injured in the crash of a single-engine plane on Long Island Rail Road tracks on the line between Bethpage and Hicksville, NY. As a result of this crash, the Federal Aviation Administration now regularly check the accuracy of its radar video maps after an air traffic controller directed the pilot with engine trouble to a closed airport moments before the plane went down. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, File)
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This undated photo provided by the San Bernardino City Unified School District shows Jonathan Martinez, who was killed in a San Bernardino special-education classroom on Monday, April 10, 2017. Martinez died at a hospital after being shot Monday in his classroom by the estranged husband of his teacher, Karen Smith, who also was killed. The gunman, Cedric Anderson, then fatally shot himself. (Courtesy of San Bernardino City Unified School District via AP)
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FILE - This undated photo provided by TOTE Maritime shows the cargo ship, El Faro. On Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said a search team using sophisticated scanning sonar has found the wreckage of a vessel believed to be the ship which went missing with 33 crewmembers on Oct. 1 during Hurricane Joaquin. (TOTE Maritime via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016 file photo, Charles Baird, former second mate of the El Faro, left, and Mike Kucharski with the National Transportation Safety Board discuss route options available to the El Faro when dealing with the approaching hurricane during a hearing investigating the ship's sinking in October 2015 in Jacksonville, Fla. Before the freighter El Faro sank, the captain was warned by a text message from his vacationing second mate that a storm looming offshore was forecast to become a hurricane, according to testimony given by Baird Thursday. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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FILE - This Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 file photo shows a case containing the electronic components of the S-VDR, voyage data recorder from the freighter El Faro at Mayport Naval Station, in Jacksonville, Fla. The 790-foot El Faro sank Oct. 1 after losing propulsion and getting caught in the hurricane while traveling between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico. All 33 crew members died. (Bob Mack/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
