Posted on 05/12/2018 7:24:05 AM PDT by mandaladon
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear test site for sometime between May 23 and 25 depending on weather conditions in order to uphold its previous pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, state media reported on Saturday.
The country’s central news agency said the dismantlement of the nuclear test ground would involve collapsing all of its tunnels with explosions, blocking its entrances and removing all observation facilities, research buildings and security posts.
“The Nuclear Weapon Institute and other concerned institutions are taking technical measures for dismantling the northern nuclear test ground of the DPRK in order to ensure transparency of discontinuance of the nuclear test,” said the announcement. DPRK is an acronym for North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The announcement comes after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12. It will be the first meeting ever between a sitting U.S. president and the leader of North Korea.
It follows a flurry of international engagement with North Korea as the two Koreas held their own summit in late April and officials plan to hold high-level meetings in coming weeks.
Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday North Korea can look forward to “a future brimming with peace and prosperity” if it agrees to quickly give up its nuclear weapons.
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Progress? This is because they screwed up and China threatened them
Eat your own bile and choke, Chuck Schumer you unpatriotic scum
All those Dems who voted against Pompeo should use that vote as part of any re-election platform. :-)
Regardless is still progress...
How about nuclear experts along with journalists?
This just a ploy and a threat to world peace...it is all Trumps fault because he is a despicable Mafia Don...
ONE of their test sites has collapsed onto itself. Rumor says that over 200 of their top nuclear scientists were there when it happened. Saw this on FR a couple of weeks ago.
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