North Korea Marches Ahead with Advanced Nuclear Weapons Program

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North Korea Marches Ahead with Advanced Nuclear Weapons Program

Will Trump administration blink first?

August 23, 2019
 
Joseph Klein
 
Evidently, the punishing sanctions imposed on North Korea, as well as President Trump’s personal relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, are not slowing down North Korea’s continuing march to becoming a full-scale nuclear-armed state. Not only has North Korea continued to test launch ballistic missiles, albeit with a short-range reach. According to a report of a new upcoming Japanese white paper, North Korea has managed to miniaturize nuclear warheads that are small enough to fit on ballistic missiles. Japan’s defense officials have described North Korea’s apparent success as a “serious and imminent threat.” The United States and South Korea have sounded similar alarms. Indeed, a confidential U.S. intelligence report back in 2017, which was leaked and reviewed by The Washington Post, said that the intelligence community "assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles."

Tensions have been rising since President Trump’s last meeting with Kim in June. “We haven’t gotten back to the table as quickly as we would have hoped, but we’ve been pretty clear all along, we know there’ll be bumps along the way,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday. He expressed displeasure with the North Korean regime’s launching of short-range missiles, which threaten U.S. allies in the region and violates UN Security Council resolutions. “I wish that they would not,” he said. Referring to UN sanctions targeting key North Korean imports and exports, Secretary Pompeo added, “These are a global sanctions regime, and we hope Chairman Kim will come to the table and get a better outcome. It’ll be better for the North Korean people, it’ll be better for the world.”

Kim does not appear to be listening too attentively. He was not happy with the scaled down joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that have just ended. While these exercises consisted mostly of computer simulations, North Korea claims that President Trump has breached his alleged promise to suspend the exercises altogether.

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[Absalom]

Rocket Man is listening very attentively but certainly not to Trump;
instead to his military, as he wants to avoid a bullet in the back of his fat head.
Japan occupied Korea for half a century till 1945 and can be of help here!!!

[Cyber Liberty]

Rocket Man is listening very attentively but certainly not to Trump;
instead to his military, as he wants to avoid a bullet in the back of his fat head.
Japan occupied Korea for half a century till 1945 and can be of help here!!!

He's still listening to Democrat politicians on CNN about getting this Trump A-hole outta there and then they can all just wait a bit, and the new Rat President will have more flexibility.

[Sanguine]

He's still listening to Democrat politicians on CNN about getting this Trump A-hole outta there and then they can all just wait a bit, and the new Rat President will have more flexibility.

Exactly!

[Cyber Liberty]

Exactly!

Why does "flexibility" always mean lying to the constituents who voted for them?