(MENAFN- Trend News Agency ) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared on Friday that Pyongyang no longer has a need to continue ballistic missile and nuclear weapons testing, according to the state-run KCNA news agency, Sputnik News reports.
The country's military will cease carrying out nuclear tests by April 21, according to the report. The test site in Punggye-ri, North Korea's only publicly known nuclear weapons testing facility, "will shut down" in order "to prove the vow to suspend nuclear tests," Kim said.
Pyongyang "will join international efforts to halt nuclear tests altogether," Kim is quoted as saying.
The decision was reached by the ruling Worker's Party of Korea at a meeting on Friday, KCNA reports.
Earlier this year, Kim and United States President Donald Trump agreed to meet one another in person in May or June, while deeper inter-Korean talks have been slated for April.
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