North Korea's Kim Jong agrees to shut missile site after summit with Moon, says will visit Seoul in 'near future'

After the summit in Pyongyang between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un, the former said that Kim agreed to shut its Tongchang-ri-missile testing site.

This picture taken on September 18, 2018 and released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (L) waving to Pyongyang citizens from an open-topped vehicle as they drive through Pyongyang. South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in Pyongyang on September 18, for his third summit this year with Kim Jong Un as he seeks to reboot stalled denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the United States. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / KCNA VIA KNS / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT

New Delhi: After the summit between North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in, the latter announced that the North agreed to close its Tongchang-ri-missile testing site. After the summit in Pyongyang between the two Koreas, Moon told the media persons that the North agreed to permanently close the Tongchang-ri missile engine test site and missile launch facility in presence of experts from relevant nations. In the joint press conference following the summit, Kim Jong Un said that he would soon visit Seoul “in near future”. Moon who went to Pyongyang in the North looking to bring a fresh momentum to the stalled denuclearisation efforts of the valley said that the trip could take place this year, unless there were “special circumstances”. If made, the trip will be a historic one as it would be the first ever time when a North Korean leader would go to South after the partition of the Korean peninsula decades ago. Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in had opened a new round of talks at the Pyongyang Summit on Wednesday with the nuclear arsenal of North as the main agenda. Moon is on a three-day trip to Pyongyang, in his third summit with Kim this year, hoping to reboot stalled denuclearisation talks between US and the North.