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North Korean Launch Site Is Being Built Back Up Again
Disclosure comes in the wake of failed U.S.-North Korean summit in Hanoi last week

What's Next for U.S.-North Korea Negotiations?


The failure to reach a deal on denuclearization at last week's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un raises a lot of questions about where things go from here. WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains. Photo: Getty
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Timothy W. Martin in Seoul
Updated March 6, 2019 10:29 a.m. ET


North Korea is restoring a missile launch site it previously claimed to be dismantling as an overture to the U.S., according to newly released commercial satellite photos and people briefed on South Korean intelligence.

The move has sparked concerns that North Korea may be wavering on some of the gestures it made to demonstrate its willingness to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

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Why North Korea’s restored rocket site isn’t cause for worry — yet
“Little Rocket Man” may be living up to his Trump-given nickname.

By Alex Ward@AlexWardVox[email protected] Updated Mar 7, 2019, 1:25pm EST


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Commercial satellite imagery from March 2, 2019, shows renewed activity at Sohae, a space launch facility in North Korea. DigitalGlobe/38 North via Getty Images
North Korea is rebuilding a satellite launch site it promised to entirely dismantle, and may have increased activity at a major missile factory — both actions that are likely meant to be warning signs to the United States and South Korea.
Should these moves be a precursor to even more aggressive actions by Pyongyang, or anger President Donald Trump, then the US and North Korea could end up moving away from diplomacy and back on the path to war.
South Korean intelligence and respected analysts this week revealed commercial satellite imagery that shows that North Koreans have been rebuilding an engine test stand and launch pad at a space launch facility at Sohae since at least February 16, and that it’s likely now back at a normal operating level. That’s a big deal, since Pyongyang promised Seoul last September that it would “permanently dismantle” the site and started to take it down last year.
“They basically reassembled what they disassembled” after Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore last year, Victor Cha, an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an early analyst of the images, said on Thursday to a Washington audience.
Hours earlier, South Korean media reported that there’s been extra movement at a missile factory known as Sanumdong, the same one that first produced the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could reach the United States. South Korea’s spy chief, Suh Hoon, reportedly told lawmakers that he believed the increased activity there was missile-related.
This is all very troubling, especially since Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un just met in Vietnam for their second summit to curb nuclear tensions. Talks broke down, though, over the US demand that Pyongyang give up all of its weapons — nuclear, chemical, biological — in exchange for nearly full sanctions relief.
Trump is already upset with the news. “I would be very disappointed if that were happening,” he told reporters on Wednesday when asked about Sohae. “I would be very, very disappointed in Chairman Kim.” Trump, of course, could ask his own intelligence community if “that were happening,” but perhaps he’d rather wait to see if someone talks about it on TV.
Experts I spoke to all expressed some concern about these developments. But there’s good news: None of them are panicking, which means you shouldn’t be either.
Here’s why.
Why you shouldn’t freak out about North Korea — yet
First, North Korea was already in the process of improving its nuclear and missile programs, which didn’t stop when Trump and Kim engaged in diplomacy last month. In a sense, these developments aren’t that new, and are merely an extension of the nation’s recent efforts.
Second, and to reiterate, Sohae is a space launch site that’s not integral to its ballistic missile program. North Korea has never tested an ICBM from this location, although it has launched space rockets from there. It’s possible Pyongyang might test another one of those rockets in the coming weeks — which would certainly be provocative — but it wouldn’t be the same as testing a deadly missile that could hit America or its allies.
“A satellite launch is in a gray zone but would definitely create problems for the Trump administration,” MIT nuclear expert Vipin Narang told me. “It could put us in a pickle,” especially if North Korea hardliners like National Security Adviser John Bolton use the launch to push Trump toward ending nuclear negotiations.
Third, North Korea is likely sending a political message more than a militaristic one. The North has repeatedly expressed frustration that the US hasn’t lifted current sanctions so Pyongyang would stop its nuclear program. By increasing activity at Sohae and the missile factory, Kim may be trying to pressure Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in to kill the financial penalties in place, and revive the inter-Korean economic integration plan, says Stimson Center expert Jenny Town, one of the analysts who first observed the satellite imagery.
The question now is how Trump will react. Even though he spent much of 2017 threatening to rain down “fire and fury” on North Korea, he’s since spoken highly of Kim, said they “fell in love,” and talked openly about wanting to avoid war.
But if Kim continues these efforts, Trump’s patience could run out — and then we’re back on a very dangerous track.


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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit with US President Donald Trump last year, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency and two US think tanks reported on Tuesday (March 5).
Yonhap quoted lawmakers briefed by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) as saying that the work was taking place at the Tongchang-ri launch site and involved replacing a roof and a door at the facility.
Satellite images seen by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea project, showed that structures on the launch pad had been rebuilt sometime between Feb 16 and March 2, Jenny Town, managing editor at the project and an analyst at the Stimson Center think tank, told Reuters.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report, also citing satellite imagery, that concluded North Korea is “pursuing a rapid rebuilding” at the site.
“Activity is evident at the vertical engine test stand and the launch pad’s rail-mounted rocket transfer structure,” the CSIS report said. “Significantly, the environmental shelters on the umbilical tower, which are normally closed, have been opened to show the launch pad.”
The news comes days after a second summit on denuclearisation between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke down last week over differences on how far North Korea was willing to limit its nuclear programme and the degree of US willingness to ease sanctions on the country.


Trump told a news conference after an unprecedented first summit with Kim on June 12 in Singapore that the North Korean leader had promised that a major missile engine testing site would be destroyed very soon.

The Sohae Satellite Launching Station features what researchers of Beyond Parallel describe as the vertical engine stand partially rebuilt with two construction cranes, several vehicles and supplies laying on the ground in a commercial satellite image taken over Tongchang-ri, North Korea, on March 2, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

Trump did not identify the site, but a US official subsequently told Reuters it was the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, which is located at Tongchang-ri.

The White House and the US State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Yonhap report.
Kim Jong Un also pledged at a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in September to close Sohae and allow international experts to observe the dismantling of the missile engine-testing site and a launch pad.

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Signs that North Korea had begun acting on its pledge to Trump were detected in July, when a Washington think-tank said satellite images indicated work had begun at Sohae to dismantle a building used to assemble space-launch vehicles and a nearby rocket engine test stand used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles.
However, subsequent images indicated North Korea had halted work to dismantle the missile engine test site in the first part of August.
The breakdown of the summit in Hanoi last week has raised questions about the future of US-North Korea dialogue.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he was hopeful he would send a delegation to North Korea in the coming weeks, but added that he had had "no commitment yet."
While North Korea's official media said last week that Kim and Trump had decided at the summit to continue talks, its Vice-Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui struck a more negative tone, telling reporters Kim "might lose his willingness to pursue a deal" and questioning whether there was a need to continue.
US State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told a news briefing that the United States remains “in regular contact”with North Korea, but he declined to say whether they had been in contact since the summit.
Palladino said US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, who led pre-summit negotiation efforts, planned to meet his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on Wednesday.
Yonhap also quoted lawmakers briefed by intelligence officials as saying that the five-megawatt reactor at North Korea's main nuclear site at Yongbyon, which produces weapons-grade plutonium used to build bombs, had not been operational since late last year, concurring with a report from the UN atomic watchdog.
Yonhap quoted the sources as saying there had been no sign of reprocessing of plutonium from the reactor and that underground tunnels of North Korea's main nuclear test site in Punggye-ri had remained shut down and unattended since their widely publicised destruction in May, which Pyongyang said was proof of its commitment to ending nuclear testing.
The fate of the Yongbyon nuclear complex and its possible dismantling was a central issue in the Hanoi summit.
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Asia North Korea rebuilds part of missile site as US warns of more sanctions

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends the extended bilateral meeting in the Metropole hotel with US President Donald Trump during the second North Korea-US summit in Hanoi (Photo: Reuters)

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WASHINGTON: North Korea has restored part of a rocket test site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit with US President Donald Trump last year, while Trump's national security advisor warned that new sanctions could be introduced if Pyongyang did not scrap its nuclear weapons program.
South Korea's Yonhap News Agency and two US think tanks reported on Tuesday (Mar 5) that work was underway at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station at Tongchang-ri, even as Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a second summit in Hanoi last week.


That summit broke down over differences on how far North Korea was willing to limit its nuclear program and the degree of US willingness to ease sanctions.
Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, told Fox Business Network on Tuesday that following the Hanoi summit, Washington would see whether Pyongyang was committed to giving up its "nuclear weapons program and everything associated with it".
"If they're not willing to do it, 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," said Bolton, a hardliner who has advocated a tough approach to North Korea in the past.
READ: US will look at ramping up North Korea sanctions if it doesn't denuclearise: Bolton


Separately, two US senators sought to dial up pressure on North Korea by reintroducing a bill on Tuesday to impose sanctions on any bank that does business with its government.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he was hopeful the United States would send a delegation to North Korea in the coming weeks, but Bolton's remarks and the apparent developments at the Sohae test site may cause new challenges for diplomats hoping to restart negotiations after the failed summit.

Commercial satellite image shows North Korea's Sohae Satellite Launching Station


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Satellite images seen by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea project, showed that structures on the Sohae launch pad had been rebuilt sometime between Feb. 16 and Mar 2, Jenny Town, managing editor at the project and an analyst at the Stimson Center think tank, told Reuters.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report, also citing satellite imagery, that concluded North Korea is "pursuing a rapid rebuilding" at the site.
"Activity is evident at the vertical engine test stand and the launch pad's rail-mounted rocket transfer structure," the CSIS report said. "Significantly, the environmental shelters on the umbilical tower, which are normally closed, have been opened to show the launch pad."
Asked to comment, the White House referred to the US State Department, which did not immediately respond.

Commercial satellite image shows North Korea's Sohae Satellite Launching Station


A US government source said the South Korean intelligence agency cited by Yonhap was considered reliable on such issues, but added that the work described did not seem particularly alarming, and certainly not on a scale of resuming missile tests that have been suspended since 2017.
Analysts cautioned that the site has never been used to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile and there is no evidence to suggest a test is imminent, but the site has been used to test missile engines and past satellite launches have helped scuttle talks with the United States.
Kim Jong Un pledged at a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in September to close Sohae and allow international experts to observe the dismantling of the missile engine-testing site and a launch pad.
Signs that North Korea had begun acting on its pledge to Trump were detected in July, when a Washington think tank said satellite images indicated work had begun at Sohae to dismantle a building used to assemble space-launch vehicles and a nearby rocket engine test stand used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles.
However, subsequent images indicated North Korea had halted work to dismantle the missile engine test site in the first part of August.
The fact that the site had been dormant since August indicates the new activity is "deliberate and purposeful," the CSIS report said.
Analysts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies told Reuters that based on the imagery, the new construction began in the run up to the second summit, which was held on Feb 27 and 28.
"Bottom line - this is movement in the wrong direction," said Joshua Pollack, a senior research associate at the center.
FUTURE DIALOGUE?
The breakdown of the summit in Hanoi last week has raised questions about the future of US-North Korea dialogue.
While North Korea's official media said last week Kim and Trump had decided at the summit to continue talks, its Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui told reporters Kim "might lose his willingness to pursue a deal" and questioned the need to continue.
US State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told a news briefing that the United States remains "in regular contact" with North Korea, but he declined to say whether they had been in contact since the summit.
Palladino said US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, who led pre-summit negotiation efforts, planned to meet his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on Wednesday.
Yonhap also quoted lawmakers briefed by intelligence officials as saying that the five-megawatt reactor at North Korea's main nuclear site at Yongbyon, which produces weapons-grade plutonium used to build bombs, had not been operational since late last year, concurring with a report from the UN atomic watchdog.
Yonhap quoted the sources as saying there had been no sign of reprocessing of plutonium from the reactor and that tunnels at North Korea's main nuclear test site in Punggye-ri had remained shut down and unattended since their widely publicized destruction in May, which Pyongyang said was proof of its commitment to ending nuclear testing.
The fate of the Yongbyon nuclear complex and its possible dismantling was a central issue in the Hanoi summit.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/world/asia/north-korea-missile-site.html

North Korea Has Started Rebuilding Key Missile-Test Facilities, Analysts Say

An image of the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, provided by a research institute that says reconstruction work there has begun.CreditCsis/Beyond Parallel, via DigitalGlobe 2019, via Reuters

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has started rebuilding the facilities it uses to launch satellites into orbit and test engines and other technologies for its intercontinental ballistic missile program, according to American military analysts and South Korean intelligence officials.
The revelation comes days after the breakdown of the second summit meeting between the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and President Trump last week in Hanoi, Vietnam. It could be a first sign that North Korea is preparing to end its moratorium on missile tests, which Mr. Trump has claimed as a major diplomatic achievement.
North Korea began dismantling the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Tongchang-ri near its northwestern border with China last summer, after Mr. Kim held his first meeting with Mr. Trump in June in Singapore. It partially took down an engine test site, a rocket launchpad and a rail-mounted building used by engineers to assemble launch vehicles and move them to the launchpad.
The North did not completely dismantle the facilities, and when Mr. Kim met with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea in September, he offered to destroy them in the presence of American experts.
But that offer is now in doubt, after Mr. Kim’s meeting with Mr. Trump in Hanoi ended without an agreement on how to end the North’s nuclear weapons and missile programs.
In Hanoi, Mr. Kim asked for the removal of punishing United Nations sanctions in return for the dismantling of its Yongbyon nuclear complex north of Pyongyang, the North’s capital, as well as the Tongchang-ri facilities. Mr. Trump rejected the demand, calling the lifting of sanctions too high a price to pay for partial moves toward denuclearization.

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Although the Yongbyon complex has been used to produce nuclear bomb fuel, North Korea is believed to have other fuel-making facilities elsewhere, as well as fissile materials, nuclear warheads and missiles that it keeps in secret locations.
Analysts have wondered what Mr. Kim’s next move might be after the breakdown of the Hanoi talks. In a New Year’s Day speech, he warned that North Korea would find a “new way” if the United States persisted with sanctions.
The news of rebuilding at Tongchang-ri first emerged hours after Mr. Kim returned home on Tuesday from Hanoi.
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Speaking to lawmakers behind closed doors at South Korea’s National Assembly on Tuesday, officials from its National Intelligence Service indicated that North Korea had been rebuilding the Tongchang-ri facilities even before the Hanoi summit meeting, South Korean news media reported on Wednesday.

Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, visited the Tongchang-ri site in 2017. A high-thrust engine that engineers tested then is believed to have been used in intercontinental ballistic missiles that the North launched months later.CreditKorean Central News Agency

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Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, visited the Tongchang-ri site in 2017. A high-thrust engine that engineers tested then is believed to have been used in intercontinental ballistic missiles that the North launched months later.CreditKorean Central News Agency
North Korea may have wanted to rebuild them in order to make their dismantling more dramatic if the Hanoi summit produced a deal with the Americans, the intelligence officials were quoted as saying. Or it may have wanted the option to resume rocket tests if the Hanoi talks broke down, they said.
The intelligence service declined to confirm the South Korean reports on Wednesday.
North Korea has not conducted any nuclear or missile tests since November 2017. Mr. Trump has cited that as a key achievement of his policy of imposing tough sanctions, which he said forced North Korea to return to the negotiating table.
Speaking at a news conference in Hanoi last week, Mr. Trump said Mr. Kim had promised not to resume nuclear or missile tests. Later, the United States canceled two large-scale joint military exercises with South Korea to help support Mr. Trump’s diplomacy with Mr. Kim.
The Tongchang-ri facilities have been vital to North Korea’s space and missile programs. The country has used the facilities there to launch satellite-carrying rockets. The United States has called the satellite program a front for developing intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Mr. Kim visited the rocket engine test site in 2017 when engineers there successfully tested a new high-thrust engine, which was believed to have powered intercontinental ballistic missiles that the North launched months later.
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Reports published Tuesday on the rebuilding at Tongchang-ri were based on satellite images obtained Saturday, but analysts said the work could have begun as early as mid-February.
“Based on commercial satellite imagery, efforts to rebuild these structures started sometime between February 16 and March 2, 2019,” 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea analysis, said in a report about the Tongchang-ri facilities on Tuesday.
“On the launchpad, the rail-mounted transfer building is being reassembled,” it said. “At the engine test stand, it appears that the engine support structure is being reassembled.”
Beyond Parallel, a website run by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, published a report with similar assessments on Tuesday.
“Commercial satellite imagery acquired on March 2, 2019, shows that North Korea is pursuing a rapid rebuilding of the long-range rocket site,” it said. The renewed activity “may indicate North Korean plans to demonstrate resolve” after the Hanoi summit, it said.
Officially, North Korea says it no longer needs to carry out nuclear or missile tests because it has finished developing its nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles and begun mass-producing them. But some Western officials and analysts still doubt that the country has mastered the technologies needed to reliably strike a target across an ocean with a missile.
In his Singapore meeting with Mr. Trump, Mr. Kim made a vague commitment to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” But the North has since balked at taking specific actions toward dismantling its nuclear and missile programs, criticizing what it called Washington’s “unilateral, gangster-like demand for denuclearization” and insisting that it will not move toward denuclearization unless the United States takes “corresponding” steps.

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Russia confirms North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Moscow

North Korean leader to visit Moscow following the breakdown of talks between his team and the US in Vietnam.

4 Mar 2019

The North Korean leader is on his way back to Pyongyang following his Vietnam visit [Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters]
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia, according to the press secretary of the Russian president who did not share dates or other details of the trip.
"Such a visit is indeed on the agenda," said Dmitry Peskov. "We hope that the precise date and venue will be determined via diplomatic channels within the foreseeable future."
The announcement came as Kim makes his way back to Pyongyang following talks with US President Donald Trump in Vietnam, where the two sides failed to sign an agreement on denuclearisation or easing of sanctions on North Korea.
On Monday, Russian media reports said members of a parliamentary group that deals with Russia's relations with North Korea will visit Pyongyang on April 12.
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Meanwhile, South Korea has proposed semi-official three-way talks with the United States and North Korea as it struggles to put nuclear diplomacy back on track after the collapse of the Hanoi summit.
The proposal for the talks came during a National Security Council meeting on Monday, led by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who said it was Seoul's "utmost priority" to prevent nuclear negotiations between the US and North Korea from derailing.
At the meeting, South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said the proposed talks, which could include civilian experts from the US and South Korea, would help settle differences over how much sanctions relief Washington should provide to North Korea in exchange for nuclear disarmament steps.
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"We should look into what and how the US and North Korea see the current situation and we will come up with practical mediation measures," said Kang.
"We will come up with multiple measures to reopen dialogue between US and North Korea. In addition, we will cooperate with countries which are interested in the issue, such as China and Russia, to reopen the US-North dialogue as soon as possible."
Last week's meeting between Trump and Kim broke down over what the Americans said were North Korea's excessive demands for sanctions relief in exchange for a limited offer to shut down its ageing main nuclear complex in Yongbyon.
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Kremlin confirms plans for Kim Jong Un to visit Russia

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Moscow confirmed plans Monday for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Russia for a meeting, the details of which are still unclear.
"There is no clarity now. The contacts have been ongoing through diplomatic channels. Indeed, this visit is on the agenda and there was an invitation," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Russian news agency TASS. "We hope that in the near future the exact date and venue will be agreed on through diplomatic channels."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that Kim had been invited to Russia, although he has not given details on what the leaders planned to discuss, according to TASS.
The North Korean leader finished his second summit with President Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, last week.
Talks broke down on Thursday as the leaders failed to reach an agreement on sanctions relief and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Russian state-run media reportedly mocked the sudden collapse of talks.
“It ended so badly the sides even avoided signing any joint agreement," one host said, according to a translation reported by CNN. "Crafty Kim Jong Un was ready for some concessions, but not the ones Trump reportedly wanted.”
Another host reportedly called the results "meager."
“Overall very, very meager for such a pompous summit," they said, according to CNN's translation.



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Kim Chang Son, de facto chief of staff to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, visited Hanoi in February shortly before the U.S.-North Korea summit there. © Reuters
MOSCOW -- A senior aide to Kim Jong Un arrived here Tuesday in what could be preparation for a meeting between the North Korean leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang's talks with the U.S. stall.
The visit by Kim Chang Son -- Kim Jong Un's de facto chief of staff, sometimes also called his "butler" -- was reported Thursday by South Korean news agency Yonhap. He had visited Singapore and Hanoi ahead of Kim's summits in those cities with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The North Korean leader has yet to travel to Russia despite invitations from Moscow. But now that negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington have broken down after February's unsuccessful summit, the North probably sees building ties with Russia as a way to gain leverage and force the U.S. to cede ground.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the report, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.
Kim Chang Son's visit follows a March 14 trip to Moscow by North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Im Chon Il, who met with counterpart Igor Morgulov, reportedly to discuss further high-level bilateral contacts.
Russia has advocated easing sanctions on North Korea and holding multilateral talks on denuclearization. While it is encouraging Pyongyang and Washington to continue their negotiations, it has also stepped up its own exchanges with the North in an apparent bid to boost its influence on the Korean Peninsula. A delegation of Russian senators took a six-day trip to Pyongyang this month as part of this effort.
Moscow may also be seeking to maneuver into an intermediary position between the U.S. and North Korea in hopes of improving its own rocky relationship with Washington.

 

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