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New satellite images have shown a partial dismantling of the satellite launch facility of North Korea. It comes as US media reported that Donald Trump was unhappy with the progress of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Images from the Sohae satellite launch station, broadcast by monitoring group 38 North on Monday, showed that Pyongyang apparently began dismantling the scene. Satellite snapshots dated July 20 describe the presence of a crane and vehicles performing deconstruction work on a building used to bademble spacecraft launch vehicles, including a rail-mounted transfer structure. Other satellite images from the Sohae station show the dismantling of a nearby rocket engine test bench used by Pyongyang to operate liquid fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space launchers [19659003]. On #DPRK began dismantling key facilities, including the rail-mounted processing building and rocket engine test bench nearby.https: //t.co/ffdQ23QaWG
– 38 North (@ 38NorthNK) July 23, 2018
"Given that these facilities would have played an important role in the development of technologies for the Northern Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program, these efforts represent a significant of significant confidence on the part of North Korea., " the monitoring group said in its report.
North Korea insists that its space exploration program is purely civilian, but many of the necessary technologies for p The lace of a satellite in orbit is similar to those needed to deliver an ogive nuclear power to another continent. Many observers say that the space launch site is part of Pyongyang infrastructure for the development of ICBM, which was a breakthrough last year.
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The publication of the new images emerged a few hours after Donald Trump refuted what he said. he called "fake reports" claiming that he was somehow frustrated by the lack of progress of the North Korean denuclearization last month's Singapore summit
" A rocket has not been launched by North Korea for 9 months, no nuclear tests, Japan is happy, all of Asia is happy .. always asking me (still anonymous sources), that I I'm angry because it's not going fast enough … False, very happy! " Trump tweeted Monday morning.
A number of US press briefs ran a story claiming that less than six weeks after Trump's meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, the US president was becoming more and more impatient with the pace of negotiations on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Basing their story on the report published in the Washington Post, US media noted that Trump was asking for daily updates on the state of negotiations, supposedly criticizing the lack of dismantling of a missile test center by the North. to be destroyed.
The summit of June 12 produced few specific commitments put on paper, but it is presumed to have resulted in several verbal agreements. For his part, Trump, shortly after the meeting, interrupted some of the joint exercises that the United States holds with South Korea. Even before the face-to-face with Trump, Kim announced that he was shutting down some of his country's key facilities related to nuclear research and rocketry.
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