North Korea Willing to Have US Inspectors Visit Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site

Here is more “pretend denuclearization” from the Kim regime:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un invited U.S. nuclear experts to verify the permanent dismantling of the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday.

The U.S. State Department reported in a statement that Kim had “invited inspectors” to visit the Punggye-ri testing site, where all of North Korea’s six underground nuclear tests took place starting from 2006, to confirm that “it has been irreversibly dismantled.”  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

You can read more at the link, but I would hope the US Secretary of State would realize that this is not denuclearization.  It has long been reported that the Punggye-ri nuclear test site is largely unusable now due to the mountain beginning to collapse.  For all we know the North Koreans could have their slave labor teams busy drilling caverns into another mountain right now for a new test site.

If the Kim regime was serious about confidence building measures they would ship some nuclear material out of the country.  Of course that would be real denuclearization when what they want is “pretend denuclearization“.