Elders witness meeting place handover ceremony at the temple in Uluk, South Korea on Sept. 5.
President Kim Jong Un, who has ruled North Korea since taking power in late 2011, has said the nuclear weapons program is necessary to defend itself against the U.S. — the only power that has tested nuclear weapons in the country’s long history.
„The nuclear weapons do not have the ability to shoot down the missiles that are designed to destroy them,“ he said in March. „In this way they defend themselves with a nuclear deterrent.“
This week the North carried out its fourth and last nuclear test, a test that the UN Security Council unanimously voted to condemn. The성남출장마사지 UN has imposed several rounds of sanctions on North Korea in recent years, and many have targeted its missile program for its purported development of nuclear weapons.
Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un discuss missile development in 2016.
The U.S. has so far been cautious in expressing its concern about Pyongyang’s missile program in the lead-up to the summit. U.S. officials said this month it was too early to conc실시간바카라lude North Korea was ready to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, and that it 더킹 카지노wasn’t clear if Pyongyang would be allowed into a future nuclear-weapons talks. But U.S. officials said they would do everything they could to ensure a successful summit.