U.S. Intel Agencies Believe North Korea Is Increasing Nuclear Production

"But there's not any. starry eyed feeling among the group doing this that we're well, well aware of what the North Koreans have done in the past", he added.

Bolton told CBS News that if Pyongyang has already made the "strategic decision" to end its weapons development program and "they're cooperative, we can move very quickly". Evidence collected since the June 12 summit in Singapore points to preparations to deceive the United States about the number of nuclear warheads in North Korea's arsenal as well as the existence of undisclosed facilities used to make fissile material for nuclear bombs, according to the report.

He said the one-year program the United States is proposing would cover all of the North's chemical and biological weapons, nuclear programs and ballistic missiles.

Noting the source of the report, experts here are interpreting it as a warning from the US to North Korea that the agreement to denuclearize should be implemented honestly, ahead of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's possible visit to Pyongyang.

The president's troubled relationship with the media have led some to blame him for what occurred, despite the fact there's no conclusive evidence the suspect was motivated by Trump's rhetoric.

"We know exactly what the risks are - them using negotiations to drag out the length of time they have to continue their nuclear, chemical, biological weapons programs and ballistic missiles", he said.

But the outlook of the North's denuclearisation efforts remain unclear at best, with the Washington Post reporting Saturday that Pyongyang plans to keep some of its nuclear stockpile and production facilities while potentially concealing them from the U.S.

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The North last month blew up its aged but only nuclear test site at Punggye-ri - where it had staged six atomic tests - in a show of goodwill before the summit.

Kim agreed to the "complete denuclearization" of North Korea at a summit with Trump in Singapore in June, but the latest activity on certain North Korean sites seems to run contrary to the Kim regime's promises of disarmament.

"Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles", the official said.

Even if North Korea is willing to cooperate, dismantling its secretive weapons of mass destruction programs, believed to encompass dozens of sites, will be tough. -North Korean diplomacy prior to the Singapore summit.

Bolton also addressed Trump's upcoming meeting with Putin Sunday, telling Fox News Sunday that he believes critics are wrong to suggest the president has been to soft on Russian Federation.

"This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief", Trump said. "North Korea has great potential for the future!" "I don't think anybody ought to have a case of the vapours over discussions we have in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation or the G7 versus discussions we have with Putin or Kim Jong-un".

Trump added, "My government will not rest until we have done everything in our power to reduce violent crime and to protect innocent life".