Trump thanks N Korea for move to dismantle test site

Bloomberg

North Korea has set the date to begin shutting down a major nuclear test site as it continues to pursue improved relations with the world, earning thanks on Twitter from US President
Donald Trump for “a very smart and gracious gesture!”
A ceremony will be held between May 23 and May 25 for the dismantling of North Korea’s northern nuclear test ground, weather permitting, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said, quoting the Foreign Ministry.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has taken a series of steps this year to ease tensions with the US and is set to meet Trump for historic talks in Singapore on June 12.
In another sign of improving relations, North Korea this week released three US citizens who’d been imprisoned in the country.
Trump also lavished praise on Kim after that move, saying he “really was excellent” to the three men, and cast forward to his upcoming meeting.
“The fact that we were able to get them out so soon was really a tribute to a lot of things, including a certain process that’s taking place right now,” the president told reporters at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington in the early hours of Thursday morning. “And that process is very important.”The isolated Asian nation, which had already pledged to begin dismantling the nuclear test site this month, will invite journalists from China, Russia, the US, the UK and South Korea to cover the event, KCNA said in the statement.
Kim said the site, Punggye-ri, which is built in a secluded mountain valley northeast of Pyongyang and has been the site for all six of the regime’s nuclear tests, would be shuttered and that further activity has been suspended.