KANSAS CITY: Welcoming "good relations" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday hailed reports that Pyongyang has begun dismantling a facility deemed a test site. for intercontinental ballistic missiles. 19659002] New satellite images show that "North Korea has started the dismantling of a key missile site, and we appreciate it," Trump said at an event for military veterans In Kansas City (Missouri)
To the criticism that his Jun 12 summit with Kim in Singapore has so far yielded little tangible results, Trump has suggested that his new relationship with Kim is paying off.
"We had a fantastic meeting with President Kim and it seems to be going very well" After the summit, Trump had declared that the North Korean nuclear threat was actually over, but some US media reports suggest that he was furiously deprived of the pace of further progress on Monday, the 38 North website posted footage indicating that Pyongyang began demolishing a treatment building and a rocket engine test bench that had been used to test liquid fuel engines at its Sohae satellite launch station.
Sohae, on the northwestern coast of North Korea, is a facility designed to put satellites into orbit, but rockets are easily reusable for missiles and the international community has marked the space of Pyongyang grape leaf program for weapons testing.
38 Northern Analyst Joseph Bermudez called the gesture a "first important step" for Kim in fulfilling a promise made by Trump, the North Korean leader had done
A senior official the US defense downplayed the information, claiming that the Sohae site was not a priority in terms of monitoring the North's denuclearization efforts.
State Secretary Mike Po Mr. Mpeo said the picture was "entirely consistent" with Kim's commitments to Trump at their Singapore summit
"We insisted that there are inspectors on the ground when the engine installation is dismantled. ", said Pompeo at a press conference in California
" They need to completely denuclearize, that's what President Kim has promised and what the world has demanded, "added Pompeo
" GOOD FEELING "
On Tuesday, Trump told the group of veterans of foreign wars that he hoped the issue of repatriation of the remnants of American troops killed during the Korean War would be approached shortly.
in a joint statement signed by Trump and Kim, the United States and North Korea pledging to recover remains, "including the r Immediate apatriation of those already identified. "
" At the end of our meeting, I told President Ki m – good relationship, good feeling – I said, "I said, would really appreciate if you could do that, "said Trump.
"He said:" That will be done. "
On June 20, Trump wrongly, 200 human remains had already been" returned "from North Korea, but the question is far from being resolved and Pyongyang has already canceled at least one meeting to discuss the return of the remains.
We are working to bring back the remains of your arms brothers who gave their lives to Korea, "Trump said Tuesday.
" I hope that very soon these fallen warriors will begin to come at home to rest in American soil. "
Sign of Washington's impatience with what it regards as the North Korean troll on the issue of denuclearization, Pompeo was in New York last week to urge member states to maintain severe economic sanctions to put pressure on Kim
and Russia argued that North Korea should be rewarded with the prospect of a relaxed sanctio South Korea has also continued its reconciliation with the North since Inter-Korean summit in April
Seoul's defense ministry said Tuesday it plans to withdraw some troops from the border demilitarized zone on a trial basis – a move that could take the form of a gradual withdrawal.
The 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving the two Koreans technically at war
The Demilitarized Zone was
More than 35,000 Americans were killed on the Korean Peninsula during the war, with 7,700 American soldiers. still listed as missing in action – most of them in North Korea.
