Joel Wit Quoted in Reuters Article About NK’s Missile Testing
March 8, 2019

Trump says he would be disappointed if North Korea resumed testing

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would be disappointed if Pyongyang were to resume weapons testing and reiterated his belief in his good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un despite the collapse last week of their second summit.

“I would be surprised in a negative way if he did anything that was not per our understanding. But we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters. “I would be very disappointed if I saw testing.”

Trump’s comments came after two U.S. think tanks and Seoul’s spy agency said this week that North Korea was rebuilding a rocket launch site at Sohae in the west of the country.

Read the full article in Reuters.

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