Kim Jong-un ‘secretly building huge base for nuke missiles that can strike the US’ as world is ravaged by coronavirus
KIM Jong-un is building a top secret base for nuclear missiles which can strike anywhere in the US, claim new reports.
Satellite images appear to show North Korea is constructing a giant storage and assembly area for its ballistic arsenal while the world is distracted by the coronavirus outbreak.
They emerged just days after it was claimed Kim had been spotted at a fertilizer factory which some fear is a front for his weapons programme.
NUKE NEGOTIATIONS
During 2018, North Korea and the US started a period of negotiations about Kim's controversial nuclear ambitions which led to three separate meetings between Kim and President Trump.
Before their first summit in Singapore, he agreed to suspend nuclear and ICBM testing, a promise that he has apparently kept until now.
Those talks eventually failed due to Trump’s insistence on North Korean denuclearization and Kim’s demand for the removal of international sanctions.
At a second summit in Hanoi, the president insisted on an “all or nothing” agreement on Kim's controversial arsenal.
He said North Korea must give up all of its nuclear arsenal and stocks of chemical and biological weapons.
However, Kim then insisted the two sides must first build up trust through a series of lesser agreements.
He offered to close his nuclear plant at Yongbyon in return for the partial removal of international sanctions, which Trump refused.
Earlier this year, Kim threatened to unleash a "new strategic weapon" in a New Year's address railing against President Trump.
He said his country was to end a moratorium on nuclear tests after what he called "gangster-like" demands by the United States.
He said he would now look to secure a nuclear deterrent, and that the US would "suffer helplessly" in any conflict between the two countries.