North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear bomb test site for sometime between May 23-25 in order to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, the country’s state media reported on Saturday a month ahead of the summit with the United States. SEOUL, South Korea — President Donald Trump thanked North Korea for saying on Saturday that it would dismantle its nuclear test site between May 23 and 25, in a dramatic event that would set up leader Kim Jong Un’s summit with Trump next month. Dialogue brokered by Seoul has seen US-North Korea relations go from trading personal insults and threats of war last year to a summit between Kim and President Donald Trump due in Singapore on June 12. He invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in to cross the border and walk in North Korea, which in fact is the land of his ancestors — Moon Jae-in’s parents were among the 14,000 refugees who left North Korea from the port at Hungnam, the site of a major evacuation of United Nations military, South Korean military and North Korean civilians during the Korean War between Dec. 15-24, 1950.
After Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe insisted North Korea settle the issue of Japanese citizens adbucted by North Korea, North Korean state media KCNA accuses Japan of disrupting peace efforts before the planned North Korea–U.S. summit.