‘Mission complete’: Kim Jong-un says no need for further nuclear & missile tests
20 April, 2018
North
Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs have allowed the
country to secure strategic stability and peace, so there is no need
for additional missile and nuke tests anymore, Kim Jong-un has
proclaimed.
“From
April 21, 2018, nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile
tests will be discontinued,” the Korean Central News Agency cited
Kim as saying, at a plenary meeting of the central committee of the
ruling Worker's Party of Korea (WPK).
Furthermore,
since North Korea’s nuclear test center has “completed” its
mission, it “will be discarded in order to ensure the transparency
of the nuclear test suspension,” KCNA reported.
Announcing
the country’s new course, the ruling party has declared that North
Korea “will never use nuclear weapons, unless there is nuclear
threat or nuclear provocation to our country, and in no case we will
proliferate nuclear weapons and nuclear technology.”
In
the announcement, North Korea noted that the “suspension of nuclear
testing is an important process for global nuclear disarmament."
Therefore, North Korea is willing to join international
denuclearization efforts.
The
extraordinary development comes just ahead of Kim's meeting with the
South Korean president Moon Jae-in later this month. The announcement
also follows US Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo’s recent
secret meeting with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang.
US
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is also preparing to meet Kim in
the coming weeks and has, on a number of occasions, vowed that
Washington will keep up its "maximum pressure" campaign on
North Korea until it agrees to denuclearize.
"Our
campaign of maximum pressure will continue until North Korea will
denuclearize," Trump said on Wednesday. "As I have said
before, there is a bright path available to North Korea when it
achieves denuclearization in a complete and verifiable and
irreversible way. It will be a great day for them, it will be a great
day for the world."
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