Kim Jong-SUN! North Korean leader soaks up spring warmth as he visits new beach resort being built

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was pictured beaming happily in the spring sunshine as he inspected construction at the Wonsan-Kalma beach resort.

Kim’s trip was his second involving ‘field guidance’ visits to sites of economic importance since the Hanoi summit with President Donald Trump.

Kim stated that works should ‘never be carried out in a slipshod manner’ as he toured the area, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). 

Kim stands beside his men who wear Moscow-inspired wide brimmed caps. He hopes his project will be completed to coincide with his grandfather Kim Il-Sung’s birthday on April 15, 2020

State media released on Saturday showed him wearing his signature black suit surrounded by officers diligently taking notes. 

He decreed that work should continue for another six months and be completed on the birthday of his grandfather Kim Il-Sung on April 15, 2020, the Korea Times reported.

Last time he toured the area in November he reference international sanctions, but he avoided such discussion this time out.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday he hoped North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would use a meeting of the country’s parliament next week to state publicly ‘it would be the right thing’ for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.

North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly is due to hold its first meeting this year on Thursday and could feature the first public comments from Kim about a second summit between him and U.S. President Donald Trump Hanoi in February that collapsed.

‘It’s something that’s an annual event where the leader of North Korea speaks to his people,’ Pompeo told ‘CBS This Morning.’ ‘We’ll watch very closely what he says.’

‘I don’t expect there’ll be great surprise,’ Pompeo said, ‘but I do hope that he will share his sentiment, his sentiment that says: We â I believe, as the leader of North Korea, I believe the right thing to do is for us to engage with the United States to denuclearize our country.’

Kim walks along the sandy beach in the spring sunshine as an entourage of his men carefully listen to what he has to say, he told them work should ‘never be carried out in a slipshod manner’

Pompeo said U.S.-North Korea diplomatic channels remained open and the two sides have ‘had conversations after Hanoi about how to move forward,’ but he did not elaborate.

He said he was ‘confident’ there would be a third summit between Trump and Kim but did not have a timetable although he hoped it would be soon.

Pompeo stressed though that economic sanctions would not be lifted until North Korea gave up its nuclear weapons.

Kim adresses his men as sunlight glints over the building works at the new tourist destination on North Korea’s eastern coast

Kim appeared to be enjoying some sea air and sun beside the Sea of Japan in the state images released on Saturday

Pompeo said on Monday he hoped the two leaders could meet again ‘in the coming months … in a way that we can achieve a substantive first step or a substantive big step along the path to denuclearization.’

The Hanoi summit, the second between Trump and Kim in less than a year, fell apart over a failure to reconcile North Korean demands for sanctions relief with U.S. demands for Kim to give up a nuclear weapons program that now threatens the United States.

North Korea has warned since that it is considering suspending talks and may rethink a freeze on missile and nuclear tests, in place since 2017, unless Washington makes concessions.