North Korea has begun rebuilding work on a satellite rocket launch pad and engine test site, in an ominous sign about its attitude toward negotiations on denuclearization.
"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,” Town said, “and so certainly this does have implications for how the North Koreans are thinking about the negotiation process.
"It's highly unlikely,” she added, “that any of these kinds of unilateral measures will be offered again unless there is an actual agreement in place going forward." In another sign that positions may be hardening, White House national security adviser John Bolton has warned that the United States may tighten sanctions if North Korea fails to denuclearize."If they're not willing to do it [denuclearization], then I think President Trump has been very clear. ... They're not going to get relief from the crushing economic sanctions that have been imposed on them, and we'll look at ramping those sanctions up, in fact.
Satellite launches have been very contentious in the past. In 2012, North Korea promised a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests in return for food aid. But the agreement, with the Obama administration, soon broke down after Pyongyang launched a satellite using ballistic missile technology that the United States deemed in breach of United Nations sanctions.
Jeffrey Lewis, a scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, said low-resolution imagery had detected some activity at the site between Feb. 18 and 22, although it was unclear what was happening until the latest satellite images emerged.
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