North Korea appears to go back on promises to destroy the launch site, made during the first summit with US President Donald Trump in 2018, repairing buildings sometime within the last three weeks.
North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site that it began to dismantle as part of pledge during the first summit with US President Donald Trump.Part of the launch facility was dismantled after the first Kim-Trump summit in 2018South Korea's Yonhap News Agency quoted politicians briefed by South Korea's National Intelligence Service as saying that the work was taking place at the Tongchang-ri launch site and involved replacing a roof and a door at the facility.
Satellite images seen by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea project, showed that structures on the launch pad had been rebuilt sometime between February 16 and March 2, Jenny Town, managing editor at the project and an analyst at the Stimson Centre think tank, told Reuters. The news comes days after a second summit on denuclearisation between Mr Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un broke down over differences on how far Pyongyang was willing to limit its nuclear program and the degree of US willingness to ease sanctions.
Mr Trump told a news conference after the unprecedented first summit with Mr Kim on June 12 in Singapore that the North Korean leader had promised that a major missile engine testing site would be destroyed very soon.
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