North Korea officially agreed to get rid of all its nuclear weapons when Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, visited the country in October.
The special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, stated that the country pledged to rid all nuclear material enrichment facilities.
However he also noted that a complete list of all its nuclear assets will be needed before the deal is official. Experts believe the country has more than one unknown nuclear fuel enrichment site other than the declared facility at Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, and question how the destruction of all facilities could be fully verified.
President Trump also recently reported there had been ‘ tremendous progress’ in the two countries relationship. At the Oval Office, last Thursday, the controversial president stated he would soon be revealing the date of the next meet up with Kim Jong-un. After meeting up in Singapore for the first meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader, they signed an optimistic but vague declaration of their commitment to denuclearisation. Since then little progress has been made.