US President Donald Trump has said he would be disappointed if North Korea were to resume weapons testing.
US President Donald Trump has said he would be disappointed if North Korea were to resume weapons testing.
Mr Trump also reiterated his belief in his good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, despite the collapse of a summit between the pair last week.
„I would be surprised in a negative way if he did anything that was not per our understanding. But we’ll see what happens,“ Mr Trump told reporters. „I would be very disappointed if I saw testing.“
Mr Trump’s comments came after two US think tanks and South Korea’s spy agency said this week that North Korea was rebuilding a rocket launch site at Sohae in the west of the country.
There have also been reports from South Korea’s intelligence service of new activity at a factory at Sanumdong, near Pyongyang, that produced North Korea’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States.
On Friday, US National Public Radio quoted experts from California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies as saying that satellite images of Sanumdong taken on 22 February and yesterday suggested North Korea could be preparing to launch a missile or a space rocket.
One of the experts, Jeffrey Lewis, told Reuters the activity at the two sites was „probably connected.
