North Korea continues its nuclear program...mean while here at home Rome burns...
Nov 13, 2018 23:46:43 #
WASHINGTON — North Korea is continuing work on its ballistic missile program, U.S. officials briefed on recent intelligence tell NBC News, confirming the gist of a private report Monday detailing recent improvements made at undeclared military sites.
A separate analysis by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, provided exclusively to NBC News, describes a secret military base deep in North Korea’s interior that analysts believe could house missiles capable of reaching the United States.
American defense officials stressed that they consider it a positive development that North Korea has not conducted a nuclear test since September 2017.
"North Korea has continued its ballistic missile program at a number of bases but it's significant that they have not tested one in nearly a year," one official said. "We need to give the diplomats time and space to work."
Nonetheless, the recent intelligence, and the private satellite photos of work on undeclared missile sites, underscore the widespread belief among experts that President Donald Trump's pronouncement that the world no longer has to worry about a North Korean nuclear program is divorced from reality.
"It looks as if it is a political charade, and it's a dangerous one," retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey told NBC News. "In the short term, North Korea is the most consequential threat to U.S. national security we're facing....They have nuclear weapons, they have delivery systems, they are not going to denuclearize. So I think the outcome of all of this is we're loosening the economic constraints on these people and we're kidding ourselves."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korea-still-working-its-ballistic-missile-program-say-u-n935231
A separate analysis by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, provided exclusively to NBC News, describes a secret military base deep in North Korea’s interior that analysts believe could house missiles capable of reaching the United States.
American defense officials stressed that they consider it a positive development that North Korea has not conducted a nuclear test since September 2017.
"North Korea has continued its ballistic missile program at a number of bases but it's significant that they have not tested one in nearly a year," one official said. "We need to give the diplomats time and space to work."
Nonetheless, the recent intelligence, and the private satellite photos of work on undeclared missile sites, underscore the widespread belief among experts that President Donald Trump's pronouncement that the world no longer has to worry about a North Korean nuclear program is divorced from reality.
"It looks as if it is a political charade, and it's a dangerous one," retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey told NBC News. "In the short term, North Korea is the most consequential threat to U.S. national security we're facing....They have nuclear weapons, they have delivery systems, they are not going to denuclearize. So I think the outcome of all of this is we're loosening the economic constraints on these people and we're kidding ourselves."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korea-still-working-its-ballistic-missile-program-say-u-n935231
Nov 13, 2018 23:55:46 #
PeterS wrote:
WASHINGTON — North Korea is continuing work on its... (show quote)
Meanwhile, here in the USA, the whacko l*****t bull$hit continues. At least Donald Trump is trying diplomacy, first, instead of destroying a foreign government, as Dipstick Obama did in Libya. Have you got any better suggestions, ... short of starting a shooting war in Korea?
Nov 14, 2018 05:00:03 #
Trooper745 wrote:
Meanwhile, here in the USA, the whacko l*****t bull$hit continues. At least Donald Trump is trying diplomacy, first, instead of destroying a foreign government, as Dipstick Obama did in Libya. Have you got any better suggestions, ... short of starting a shooting war in Korea?
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Nov 14, 2018 06:42:45 #
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