Thread: North Korea suspends missile testing, closing nuclear test site, reports say

North Korea suspends missile testing, closing nuclear test site, reports say

Fox News
5 mins ago

North Korea announced Friday that it will be suspending missile testing and closing a nuclear test site, several reports said.

This is a developing story; please check back for updates.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/04...ports-say.html

Good!!

That's three goals already met, US troops can stay in South Korea (announced yesterday), complete denuclearization by North Korea is what they intend to do with an agreement (announced several days ago), and now all current nuclear activity in North Korea is suspended, pending formal talks with Trump.

What a wonderful thing this will be if all the terms and conditions can be put to writing and in a manner that we can verify and enforce.

Also, the war between North and South Korea may be ended as part of this which would pave the way for at least an open door policy between the two Koreas and a possible reunification of some type on some level.

WOW. Kudos to all involved.

Thank you Mr. President for doing this your way instead of the other way.

North Korea announces it will stop all nuclear tests and missile launches ahead of Trump talks

Jeremy B White San Francisco
5 hours ago

North Korea has said it will halt conducting missiles and nuclear tests, fulfilling a pledge made by leader Kim Jong-un ahead of a meeting with Donald Trump.

The promised cessation, reported North Korean state media, represented another apparent concession as the country maneuvres ahead of the landmark summit. South Korea’s president earlier this week said Mr Kim had embraced denuclearising without demanding the withdrawal of US troops from the Korean Peninsula.

In proposing the talks and moving to suspend his nation’s displays of military prowess, Mr Kim pivoted sharply from his more aggressive stance in the preceding months.

Pyongyang tested multiple intercontinental missiles, hurling two of them over Japan and offering evidence of its professed ability to strike the US mainland.

The country also tested a powerful nuclear weapons that experts believe was almost certainly a hydrogen bomb.

After those displays prodded the United Nations to impose layers of suffocating sanctions - and led Mr Trump to repeatedly threaten the use of military force - Pyongyang used the Winter Olympics in South Korea to abruptly shift tacks.

A delegation of North Korean athletes travelled across the border, accompanied by Mr Kim’s sister, and high-level talks between the two nations followed. South Korean officials then carried Mr Kim’s message to Mr Trump.

CIA director Mike Pompeo has since been dispatched to North Korea to meet with Mr Kim and lay the groundwork for talks.

Earlier this week, Mr Trump reiterated his administration’s dual approach of pursuing diplomacy and maintaining “maximum pressure” with biting sanctions. He also professed a willingness to abandon talks if they seemed to be leading nowhere.

“If I think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go”, Mr Trump said. “If the meeting, when I'm there, is not fruitful, I will respectfully leave the meeting”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8315171.html