N. Korea offers to close nuclear test site next month: Cheong Wa Dae
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11:23 April 29, 2018
SEOUL, April 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korean presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday that North Korea has offered to close down its nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in May.
During a live broadcast delivered by President Moon Jae-in's chief press secretary Yoon Young-chan, he said Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un also agreed to make public when North Korea dismantles the northern test site.
Kim said he would invite security experts and journalists to the North.
"Some say that we are terminating facilities that are not functioning, but you will see that they are in good condition," Yoon quoted Kim as saying.
jaeyeon.woo@yna.co.kr
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