Kim Jong Un Suckered Trump With a Fake De-Nuke 'Breakthrough'

[DonViejo]

By dismantling a missile engine test site, the North Koreans are giving up something that they no longer need and something that can be quickly and relatively easily reconstituted.

ANKIT PANDA
07.26.18 5:10 AM ET

Just weeks after President Donald J. Trump's encounter with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, North Korea has started dismantling the very same rocket engine testing apparatus that enabled it to develop its intercontinental-range ballistic missiles.

At the press conference following their meeting, Trump announced that Kim had given him his word that he would dismantle this site. Now, Kim has followed through.

This is cause for celebration and proof that Trump is succeeding in denuclearizing North Korea where his predecessors failed, right?

Well, not quite.

The details matter in assessing the value of what North Korea is apparently giving up, which is a missile engine test stand on its western coast, at a well-known site called the Sohae Satellite Launching Station (and sometimes Tongchang-ri).

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[Scoopster]

1. I disagree slightly.. Let's be honest here.

Kim Jong-Un didn't do anything differently that he or other NK leaders have done before - he promised everything and has delivered less than zero.

The difference here is that we currently have a desperate fascist megalomaniac for a President, and HE LET HIMSELF BE DUPED. Both his Secys of State LET THEMSELVES BE DUPED. This is all on them for their blatant & spectacular failure of diplomacy & making the USA look weak on foreign policy worldwide just so they could score cheap short-term political points.

[yallerdawg]

2. It was reported...

this site was last used in 2012 for liquid fuel rockets.

This was a typical NYC shell game move - all smoke and mirrors.

Actually, North Korea is no more a threat to us than they were before that jackass started poking them with a stick.

The Dotard has no artistic skills in his playbook - just another Twitter troll.