The top U. S. military commander on the Korean peninsula said that the material needed for North Korea to make nuclear bombs is still intact.
The top U. S. military commander on the Korean peninsula said Saturday that the material needed for North Korea to make nuclear bombs is still intact, even after an historic summit in Singapore aimed at denuclearizing Pyongyang.
North Korea’s nuclear “production capability is still intact,” Army Gen. Vincent Brooks, the commander of U. S. forces in South Korea, told the Aspen Security Forum via teleconference. “We haven’t seen a complete shutdown of production yet. We have not seen a removal of fuel rods.”
Brooks comments come a little more than a month after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat down for the first time with U. S. President Donald Trump to discuss denuclearization.
“There has to be demonstrable action in that direction, or we cannot be satisfied and we probably can’t be friends and we probably won’t be at peace,” Brooks said, speaking about the North’s path to give up its nuclear weapons.
“Thus far, those steps have not been taken,” Brooks added.
