Work may have begun even before the breakdown of the Trump-Kim summit last week.
By Simon Denyer Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Email Bio Follow March 6 at 6:52 AM TOKYO — North Korea has begun rebuilding a satellite rocket launchpad and engine test site, in an ominous sign about its attitude toward negotiations on denuclearization.
In Hanoi, Trump said Kim promised not to resume nuclear and missile tests. In that context, any move by North Korea to launch a rocket — and pass it off as a peaceful space-related activity — would probably be viewed as provocative. The Sohae Satellite Launching Station is pictured in a commercial satellite image taken over Tongchang-ri in North Korea on March 2. “It’s unfortunate because this was one of the unilateral steps that the North Koreans were making at the beginning of the negotiation process as sort of a confidence-building measure, and so certainly this does have implications for how the North Koreans are thinking about the negotiation process,” Town said.
“There was some evidence that they were on their way to doing a space launch,” he said. “So it’s not crazy to imagine that that might be one of the things they choose to resume if they don’t feel like they’re getting what they want in negotiations.”
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