Kim Jong-un Touts Economic Growth Amid Rocket Launch Speculation

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is continuing to stress economic development as the most urgent task facing his country, state media said Saturday, amid speculation that the North may launch a rocket.

In a letter to a national conference of propaganda officials held in Pyongyang earlier this week, Kim stressed the need to concentrate all efforts on building a "socialist economy.

He called on party officials to spur efforts to handle ideology education for citizens to ensure that " great progress will be made in socialist economic construction," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

It was Kim's first message made public since he returned home empty-handed following the breakdown of last week's summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi.

It also came amid reports that there are signs of North Korea restoring part of the Dongchang-ri missile test site that it began to dismantle last year.

South Korea's spy agency also said vehicle activity had been detected at the Sanum-dong rocket assembly center near Pyongyang, which is known to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles, including the Hwasong-15.

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