Pyongyang

Kim makes an offer: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has offered to “permanently dismantle” the country’s main nuclearweapons production site—if the U.S. makes concessions first. At a pomp-filled summit in Pyongyang this week with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the two leaders signed agreements to end military exercises near the border and create no-fly zones, and Kim pledged to allow inspectors to verify the closure of its already flattened Tongchang-ri missile test site. But before shutting down the Yongbyon nuclear complex, Kim said, he wanted “corresponding measures” from the U.S., such as a formal end to the 1950–53 Korean War, which was halted with a truce. President Trump tweeted that the offer was “very exciting!” but analysts disagreed. “No matter how hard I look,” said Cheon Seong-whun of Seoul’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies, “I can find no real progress in denuclearization in today’s announcements.”