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Sceptics warn that Pyongyang is yet to make any public commitment to give up its arsenal

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gives opening remarks at the 5th Conference of Cell Chairpersons of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on December 22,2017. KCNA/via 

North Korea will destroy its nuclear test site later this month, ahead of a summit with the United States, it said, pledging to blow up its tunnels in front of invited foreign media.

US President Donald Trump praised the North's decision to dismantle the Punggye-ri test site in a ceremony scheduled between May 23-25, the latest step in leader Kim Jong Un's charm offensive.

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