{"id":114636,"date":"2018-06-22T02:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/06\/22\/north-korea-pledges-to-destroy-missile-test-engine-site\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:34:02","slug":"north-korea-pledges-to-destroy-missile-test-engine-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/22\/north-korea-pledges-to-destroy-missile-test-engine-site\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea pledges to destroy missile test engine site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration on Thursday identified the missile test engine site that it says North Korea has pledged to destroy, but the president\u2019s latest comments about resolving the nuclear standoff have raised new questions about what concessions Pyongyang has made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump had said on June 12 after his summit with Kim Jong Un that the North Korean leader was \u201calready destroying\u201d a missile site, in addition to committing to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/13\/trump-claim-raises-eyebrows-north-korea-no-longer-a-nuke-threat\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">complete denuclearization<\/a>\u201d of the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/21\/kim-leaves-china-as-south-korea-urges-concrete-plan-on-nukes\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18171036676378.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Kim leaves China as South Korea urges \u2018concrete\u2019 plan on nukes<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">South Korea urged North Korea on Wednesday to present a plan with concrete steps toward denuclearization, raising the pressure on its leader Kim Jong Un as he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a visit designed to convey the countries\u2019 growing closeness.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The testing site in question is in Ch\u2019olsan County, North Pyongan province, and is sometimes is referred to as the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, according to an administration official. The official, who wasn\u2019t authorized to discuss the issue publicly and spoke only on condition of anonymity, would not answer questions about whether the site was already being destroyed, but said that as negotiations moved forward, the administration would continue to monitor the area where North Korea tested liquid propellant engines for long-range ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea conducted satellite launches into space from Sohae in 2012 and 2016, drawing international condemnation as the rocket technology used could be adapted for use with ballistic missiles. There are also facilities there for testing missile engines. Commercial satellite imagery of the Sohae station from June 12 shows no apparent activity related to dismantlement of its rocket engine test stand, according to 38 North, a Washington-based website that tracks developments in the isolated nation\u2019s weapons programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump boasted at a Cabinet meeting Thursday that his administration has had \u201ctremendous success\u201d with North Korea, adding that denuclearization had already begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president\u2019s comments, however, ran counter to remarks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/06\/20\/mattis-still-working-on-future-of-us-south-korea-military-exercises\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Secretary James Mattis<\/a> made the day before. Mattis told reporters Wednesday that he wasn\u2019t aware that North Korea had taken any steps yet toward denuclearization. \u201cI\u2019m not aware of any. Obviously, we\u2019re at the very front end of the process. Detailed negotiations have not begun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said Kim has stopped testing missiles, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2017\/11\/28\/dod-detects-probable-missile-launch-from-north-korea\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">ballistic missiles that could reach the United States<\/a>, and is destroying the engine testing site \u2014 an apparent reference to Sohae. \u201cThey\u2019re blowing it up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers are debating the significance of that promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will depend on which facilities it destroyed at Sohae \u2014 one of several sites that have been used for the development of the North\u2019s ballistic missiles, said Jenny Town, a research analyst on North Korea at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf it\u2019s just the engine test stand at Sohae that will be dismantled, diplomatically it has value but it doesn\u2019t really change North Korea\u2019s ability to test more engines if they chose to do so at a different facility,\u201d Town said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf they were dismantling more facilities at Sohae, such as the launch pad itself, that would be a very big development, as Sohae is their main satellite launch facility. It could signal North Korea is willing to include a moratorium on satellite launches in addition to their missile and nuclear tests, which has been a point of contention in past agreements and derailed negotiations in the past. But this is obviously a big if.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the Cabinet meeting, Trump also referenced other concessions North Korea has supposedly made: \u201cThey\u2019ve already blown up one of their big test sites. In fact, it was actually four of their big test sites,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump undoubtedly was referencing North Korea\u2019s demolition in late May of a nuclear test site at Punggye-ri in a remote area in the northeastern part of the country. But it\u2019s unclear what Trump meant when he went on to say \u201cit was actually four of their big test sites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Punggye-ri was built with multiple tunnels suitable for nuclear testing. 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