Posted on 09/15/2015 9:45:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Remember when we had an agreement based on trust and verification that would keep North Korea from developing or acquiring nuclear weapons? Good times, good times. With the ink drying on yet another “framework” deal with a rogue, dictatorial nation, North Korea announced today that they have restarted the proscribed Yongbyon reactor, and they are now ready to start launching nuclear weapons at the United States.
Get used to this sort of thing:
North Korea Tuesday announced that it had restarted its Yongbyon nuclear reactor and was ready to use nuclear weapons “any time” against the United States.
The announcement came less than a day after North Korea said it was preparing to launch a long-range rocket and will heighten fears that Kim Jong Un wants to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party on Oct. 10 with a literal bang.
All of the nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, including the uranium enrichment plant and 5 megawatt reactor, were now in “normal operation,” the unnamed director of North Korea’s Atomic Energy Institute said, according to a report published Tuesday by the official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korean scientists had been “steadily improving the levels of nuclear weapons with various missions in quality and quantity as required by the prevailing situation,” the report said, adding that North Korea is ready to face American hostility with “nuclear weapons any time.”
These kinds of provocations usually have a couple of purposes — either to twist arms for more food and fuel relief, or to celebrate the glorious Kim regime that starves its people of food and fuel. North Korea has a major anniversary coming up, so the US and Japan knew that some kind of stunt would occur. Restarting the Yongbyon reactor goes beyond a stunt, however. It signals that Pyongyang intends to expand its nuclear arsenal, and to do so in flagrant violation of its earlier agreements and UN resolutions. That this follows the feckless retreat from sanctions against Iran cannot be a coincidence.
At this point, all we can do is shrug at the Kim regime. No one has the will to go to war with North Korea, and so we will all do the Sanctions Dance and pray that someone deposes the Kims and restores sanity to the Korean peninsula before Kim The Latest decides he finally has to follow through on his threats. Get used to that, too, because we don’t even have the Sanctions Dance any more with the Iranians.
Clinton refurbished that reactor for them with US Taxpayer money based solely on the “promise” by chia head that he wouldn’t process the fuel for weapons.
No sooner was the reactor refurbished than the Norks started processing the fuel for weapons.
Mad Maddy Albright shrieked “He lied to us!!” as if it were a surprise...
Thank you Jimmy Carter.
And so the end begins.............
.....Hang on, help is on the way!
John F’n Kerry will be on his way to negotiate when they will get the nuclear bombs.
Jimmah Cahtah brokered the deal and Madeline Halfwit played footsie with them, all the while Bill was selling secrets to the Chicoms...
So when is ketchup kerry going to make a beeline to pyongyang to make an iranian style deal with the norks?
Lurch’s boss obama seems to have a penchant for cutting bad deals with despotic regimes that like to chant “death to America”, almost like he hates the US or something.
But, I could be wrong.
,,,,,, as 0bama prepares to surrender .
Yup.
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My guess is John (Vietnam Vet) Kerry is, as we speak winging his way to Pyongyang with copies of the Iran Nuclear Proliferation nonTreaty Treaty and a few billion dollars to meet with Kim Jong-un in order to start the negotiations.
Luckily, Kim Dung is too stupid to find the USA on a map!
Just had a unsettling thought. What you describe is part of treaty. Could Obama take it a step further and unilaterally disarm America of all of its nuclear arsenal through executive order as commander in chief?
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