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Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, in the northern part of North Korea.
North Korea invited foreign journalists to witness the destruction of a nuclear testing facility just hours before President Donald Trump canceled a planned summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday morning.
North Korea demolished the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, where it has conducted six nuclear tests in recent months, in order to "bring peace and stability" to the world, a government official told a Sky News journalist at the scene.
That olive branch, however, proved short-lived as Trump wrote a letter to Kim explaining that North Korea's "tremendous anger and open hostility" in advance of the planned meeting in Singapore on June 12 inspired him to cancel the meeting.
DigitalGlobe, a company that operates a network of private satellites, provided Business Insider with a series of satellite images of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site just prior to destruction.
Check out the images below: