Posted on 06/14/2018 8:20:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
•US president Donald Trump left experts baffled when he said North Korea had agreed to destroy a missile engine testing site, but it now looks like North Korea is making good.
•North Korea will reportedly destroy a large-scale facility in Tongchang-ri, North Pyongan Province that was used to test engines for the intercontinental-range ballistic missile, the Hwasong-14.
•The Hwasong-14 was the first North Korean missile experts said could hit the US mainland with a nuclear payload.
•Measures like the destruction of testing sites in North Korea, if monitored by US and international experts, could build the kind of trust needed to carry out denuclearization.
US president Donald Trump left experts baffled when he said North Korea had agreed to destroy a missile engine testing site after emerging from his summit with Kim Jong Un, but it now looks like North Korea is making good.
"They secured the commitment to destroy the missile engine testing site. That was not in your agreement," Trump said in a press conference after the summit, referencing the joint statement which made no mention of concrete steps towards denuclearization.
"I got that after we signed the agreement. I said do me a favor. You have this missile engine testing site. We know where it is because of the heat. It is incredible the equipment we have to be honest with you. I said can you close it up. He's going to close it up," Trump continued.....
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Destruction of that one should be easy to monitor via OHI (OverHead Imagery). The facility is readily visible on Google Earth...
Dont know how he can put up with the idiots surrounding him in DC, but at least he takes his time to explain it all real slow to them. Lol. If it was me, there would have been reporters heads on posts by now. Lol.
repeats the leftist fake stream news lie: Trump gave up WAY too much (when in fact he gave up nothing of substance) ...
If North Korea follows through, I think Trump will provide mentoring for Kim to raise his own country to prosperity without the need for major welfare from the U.S. North Korea has the potential to be one of the hottest economies in the next 20-30 years and this will be a true lesson in “Nation Building”, unlike the ineffective “Nation Building” policies of Bush and Obama in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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