Donald Trump says that Kim Jong-un has blown up four North Korea nuclear weapons testing sites.

The president made the dramatic revelation during a briefing Thursday, hours after revealing that North Korea has already returned the remains of 200 US troops missing from the Korean War.

He said: ‘They’ve stopped the sending of missiles, including ballistic missiles. They’re destroying their engine site. They’re blowing it up.

President Trump revealed that North Korea had blown up four of its biggest nuclear weapons testing sites during a Cabinet Room meeting Thursday (Picture: AFP)

‘They’ve already blown up one of their big test sites, in fact it’s actually four of their big test sites.’


Trump offered the positive news – which is yet to be officially verified – after performing an embarrassing u-turn on his policy of separating children from parents who had crossed the American southern border illegally.

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It comes less than a fortnight after his historic summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore.



That saw both leaders sign a document to say that North Korea would dump its nukes, in return for economic help from the US.

Last month, footage appeared to show North Korea blowing up tunnels at a nuclear test site, hours before President Trump canceled the planned summit.

Foreign journalists were invited to watch the detonation before the summit was temporarily canceled after North Korean delegates refused to discuss its logistics with their American counterparts.

North Korea invited foreign journalists to watch the destruction of these supposed nuclear weapons testing sites at the end of May, with President Trump now claiming four key sites have been destroyed (Picture: EPA)

Relations between the US and North Korea have enjoyed a dramatic upswing in the wake of President Trump’s historic meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12(Picture: Rex)

But just six days later the meeting was back on, after Kim’s right-hand man Kim Yong chol traveled to New York.

That Kim met with both Secretary of State and President Trump, to whom he delivered a letter from the North Korean chairman.