North Korea has expanded a key long-range missile base in the months since a summit between the country’s leader Kim Jong Un and U. S. President Donald Trum<\/b>
\nWASHINGTON \u2013 North Korea has expanded a key long-range missile base in the months since a summit between the country\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un and U. S. President Donald Trump, according to satellite images published by CNN on Wednesday.
The two men met in Singapore in June and signed a vaguely worded document that pledged to \u201cwork toward\u201d the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, though it did not detail specifics on how this would come about.
According to CNN, Pyongyang has upgraded the Yeongjeo-dong missile base in North Korea\u2019s mountainous interior and has built up another facility that had not previously been publicly identified.
Experts told the U. S. news network that the site\u2019s location made it suitable to host North Korea\u2019s newest long-range missiles, including ones that could carry nuclear warheads.
In a statement the Pentagon said: \u201cWe watch North Korea very closely but we cannot discuss intelligence.\u201d
Trump said on Saturday that he hoped to organize a second summit with Kim in early 2019.
National Security Adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that Trump thinks the North Korean strongman hasn\u2019t met the commitments he made at the Singapore summit.
U. S. officials insist on the complete, verified and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula before tough sanctions are lifted.
But the North has rejected demands for what it calls \u201cunilateral\u201d disarmament, and has instead sought unspecified reciprocal U. S. measures in a gradual process.<\/p>\n