North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line

[DonViejo]

Source: NBC News



The newest intelligence shows Kim’s regime has stepped up efforts to hide its nuclear weapons production, say three senior U.S. officials.

by Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee / Sep.10.2018 / 4:34 AM ET

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump issues a steady stream of praise for Kim Jong Un in interviews and on Twitter, a steady stream of evidence that North Korea is still making nuclear weapons has pushed his administration to take a much more aggressive stance toward Pyongyang.

The newest intelligence shows Kim's regime has escalated efforts to conceal its nuclear activity, according to three senior U.S. officials. During the three months since the historic Singapore summit and Trump's proclamation that North Korea intends to denuclearize, North Korea has built structures to obscure the entrance to at least one warhead storage facility, according to the officials.

The U.S. has also observed North Korean workers moving warheads out of the facility, the officials said, though they would not speculate on where the warheads went.

One former senior U.S. official said North Korea frequently moves equipment around to hinder foreign intelligence gathering. "They're trying to move them around so our sensors are confused," the official said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korea-still-making-nukes-trump-admin-now-taking-much-n907651

[sinkingfeeling]

1. How's that Nobel peace prize coming along?

[Nitram]

2. "Taking a harder line?" Like, they're frowning and shaking a finger at Kim?

[matt819]

3. But the toddler said we had a deal

I am truly shocked. I thought this was all wrapped up. Who’d a thunk that it was all smoke and mirrors?

[Achilleaze]

4. Oh noes. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief got suckered. Again.

I guess it's krappy karma blowback for all the people Dirty Donny has SUCKERED in his life.

Suckerism is obviously another degenerate republican "family value."

[heaven05]

6. this idiot

gets millions of people killed and that many more irradiated, so be it. This is what our leadership class and Putin wanted in his election as potus and wants now. Putin wants our country destroyed, physically, materially and politically militarily being the top priority cause who stands to gain if Amerika is shamed and defeated. Well, it's already shamed. If we let these RW assholes continue their coup we are all dead. As 70 years old, I am not worried so much about my death. just hope I am in or near Ground Zero. It's the kids and the animals make me sad if they have to go through the insanity of a Party intent on the genocide of the human race. NO doubts.

[soryang]

7. The article alludes without saying so to the alleged enrichment plant at Kangson

38North.org has since debunked that assessment. https://www.38north.org/2018/08/mmadden080318/

The authors pretend to have a level of certainty which is really based upon interpretation and subject to spin. At least Lewis admits that he could be wrong in his assessments. Klinger always views everything in the worst light possible. Cooling is going to be needed at Yongbyon regardless of production status.

Bruce Bennett as Rand's leading "expert" has been predicting the collapse of North Korea for years.

The administration is trying to pretend now that they didn't agree to the first two clauses of the Singapore declaration, that they papered over the North Korean requirement for a new relationship fostering peace and prosperity with the US. Pompeo recently said that North Korea needs to decide on whether it's going to make a strategic shift in its relations with the US and the rest of the world. Actually, it was Trump and Pompeo that told North Korea, the US was willing to make a strategic shift in its relations with North Korea before and at Singapore and retreated from that posture in light of the fierce institutional resistance and political criticism at home. Trump stood on the white house lawn and told the world about a declaration to end the Korean War just after he met with Kim Yong Chol before the Singapore summit. John Bolton repeatedly goes to the media and states that Kim Jong Un said they would denuclearize within one year at the April 27 meeting with Moon Jae In. The first time he said this, the Blue House in South Korea reported that there was no factual basis to the claim.

Now faced with mounting criticism and an upcoming election, Trump, Pompeo and others return to well worn hard liner path that has never worked.

This is a much better article that shows greater insights into what the issues are:

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/6/17827100/north-korea-trump-kim-south-nuclear

[keithbvadu2]

8. But, but, but Dotard said that Rocketman was "very honorable".

[AKing]

9. Kim Jong Un vs 5th or 6th Grader Dumbo Don. What could go wrong?

[SWBTATTReg]

10. rump mumbles that he alone, can fix it all! idiot...

[SergeStorms]

11. Uh oh.

A perfect "wag the dog" moment for the orange shit-stain. I cringe to think of what the orange buffoon may do now.