Moon, who has adopted a dovish approach to Pyongyang and brokered the US-North Korea talks process, urged his officials to find out what exactly had gone awry at the high-stakes meeting, and predicted a deal would ultimately be reached. Trump said at a press conference after the summit that the North Koreans had wanted sanctions against Pyongyang "lifted in their entirety." About 100kms north of Pyongyang, Yongbyon is home to the country's first nuclear reactor, and is the only known source of plutonium for the North's weapons programme. However, Moon said that if all Yongbyon facilities were "terminated in entirety, it should be considered the North's denuclearization has entered an irreversible stage." The Yongbyon site is "the foundation of North Korean nuclear facilities", he added.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 04, 2019 15:56 UTC