WhatsApp [19659012] Kim Jong Un allegedly urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to end the crippling sanctions imposed on his country shortly after Singapore's historic summit with President Donald Trump
"We are suffering a lot from economic sanctions ", The Korean leader told his Chinese counterpart during a state visit. "Now that we have concluded the summit between the United States and North Korea, I would like China to strive to lift sanctions quickly."
Xi told Kim that he would do "all he could" to do it. According to Yomirui Shimbun of Japan, citing several sources in China and North Korea. Kim's conversation with Xi took place during the young despot's third trip to China on June 19, one week after the Singapore summit on June 12, when Trump said North Korea would not take any concrete action to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. . (SPOUSE: Kim Jong A Visits China for the Third Time in Three Months)
While China declared that it intended to maintain the sanctions and that it was engaged in Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Beijing
Shortly after Kim's trip to China, Trump told reporters that the border between China and North Korea "is weakening now," a reference to the increase of bilateral trade and a sign of rupture in the implementation of sanctions. The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, acknowledged Wednesday at a Senate subcommittee hearing that the US had seen "a modest" part of the sanctions implementation by China. North Korea is allowed to emerge from diplomatic and economic isolation, eliminating the strategy of maximum pressure and thus eliminating any denuclearization force in the North.
As such, Kim's previous commitments to denuclearize are as questionable as those father did, are already suspect.
North Korea has increased fuel production for the manufacture of nuclear weapons at several secret sites in recent months, NBC reported Friday night, citing more than a dozen US officials. (RELATED: US intelligence suspects produce nuclear fuels at secret sites despite peace and denuclearization negotiations)
Satellite images from June 21 reveal North Korea is also making improvements to the Nuclear Security Center Yongbyon nuclear science research. North Korea's North Korea Watchdog 38 revealed Tuesday. (RELATED: North Korea upgrades a key nuclear research facility at an accelerated pace)
U.S. Intelligence officials believe that North Korea does not intend to surrender its nuclear arsenal, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Instead, officials suspect the North of concealing weapons in secret facilities
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