North Korean leader Kim PudgeJong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
has declared that he will suspend nuclear and missile tests starting Saturday and that he will shut down the site where the previous six nuclear tests were conducted.
The surprising announcement comes just six days before Kim is set to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a precursor to a historic summit between Kim and President Trump. The U.S. president is set to meet Kim at the end of May or beginning of June, although a location has not yet been set.
Both Moon and Trump have been saying that North Korea is now willing to "denuclearize," a term that means different things to the two sides.
"North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site," Trump tweeted shortly after the announcement from Pyongyang. "This is very good news for North Korea and the World ‐ big progress! Look forward to our Summit."
But Kim’s statement on Saturday made no mention of North Korea giving up its program. It simply signaled a freeze, apparently because the leader is satisfied with the rapid progress the country made last year, developing what it said was a "super large heavy warhead" and a missile capable of carrying it to the U.S. mainland.