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Korean President Moon Jae-in told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that top DPRK leader Kim Jong-un promised to make open the closedown of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site to the ROK and the United States as well as to the1．society.

The ROK president asked the UN chief to allow officials to2．and confirm the shutdown.

During the April 27 summit with Moon at the border village of Panmunjom, Kim said his country will close the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in northeast of the DPRK, where all of six nuclear tests were3．, by the end of May.

After the summit, Moon and Kim signed and announced the Panmunjom Declaration, agreeing to the complete denuclearization and the4．of the current armistice agreement into a peace treaty.

The two leaders also agreed to stop all5．acts, including the propaganda broadcast and the distribution of leaflets, in areas near the military demarcation line dividing the DPRK and the ROK since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War6．the Declaration.

Local media on Tuesday reported that the DPRK was removing propaganda loudspeakers from the border area, in a bid to7．the Panmunjom Declaration, and the ROK had also stopped its propaganda broadcasting days ahead of the Kim-Moon summit.

Guterres said he was willing to cooperate in the process in response, noting that though Moon’s calls require the approval from UN Security Council, he will make efforts to help settle peace on the Korean Peninsula. Guterres added that he will appoint a UN official in charge of arms reduction to cooperate with the ROK.

Moon also asked Guterres to issue a statement welcoming and supporting the Panmunjom Declaration by the UN General Assembly or the UN Security Council, saying UN support will be a great help to8．inter-Korean relations and the success of the upcoming DPRK-US summit.

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he has considered the Demilitarized Zone separating the DPRK and the ROK as a possible site for his meeting with Kim, 9．in either May or early June.

“Numerous countries are being considered for the MEETING,” Trump tweeted on Monday morning, “but would Peace House/Freedom House, on the Border of North & South Korea, be a more Representative, Important and Lasting site than a10．country? Just asking!”