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To: AdmSmith
Could be true for the ones with ICBM range. As for mid-range rockets, he may have enough already. Kim may say he won't do another ICBM test but can launch a rocket to put a satellite on orbit. They would claim that it is not an ICBM, but a ‘peaceful space exploration.’
75 posted on 04/21/2018 3:43:32 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; nuconvert
Since KN can not use Mount Mantap for additional nuke tests, the mountain will collapse (1), they have to build new tunnels somewhere and that will take more(?) than a year. This implies that Kim can say that he will stop the nuclear tests (for now).

(1) But another reason could be a tunnel collapse there. About a dozen earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 and greater have been detected at the site since the nuclear test last September.
Mt. Mantap, where the nuclear tests were conducted, reportedly sank about 3 m in the wake of the earthquakes.
A researcher with a government-funded think tank here speculated, “It's possible that the regime has decided not to use the site for a certain time due to the danger of collapse.”

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/03/26/2018032601275.html

134 posted on 04/22/2018 3:56:04 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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