Posted on 05/02/2018 3:29:32 PM PDT by mandaladon
Sketchy reporting on this so far even a few hours out from this tweet, but hugely interesting if true although perhaps not unexpected. CBSs sources within the US intel community tell them that North Korea has begun dismantling their nuclear testing facility at Punggye-ri. If true, it might mean that theyre serious about ending their nuclear program or that the facility is already useless:
Presumably US intelligence has developed this information from either reliable human intelligence, which is difficult to get in the prison camp north of the 38th Parallel, or from real-time satellite surveillance, which is much easier. So maybe its on the level, but it certainly seems odd. Kim Jong-un and his father spent billions and earned the wrath of the international community to build up nuclear leverage just for the moment when negotiations began over the final status of the Korean Peninsula. Now that theyre on the cusp of making use of their nuclear program, theyre unilaterally dismantling their key site for future weapons development short of a test of a warhead on a missile?
If it is on the level, it tends to corroborate what studies out of China have concluded that the Kim regime has rendered Punggye-ri unusable. The sudden reduction in Mount Mantaps elevation likely came from the collapse of the tunnels from which these cables are being removed, and the site has been polluted by radiation from the hydrogen-bomb test carried out last fall. That doesnt disarm Kim of his existing nuclear devices, but it would cripple their program from developing any new designs and perhaps even production of existing designs, depending on how much of that took place in Punggye-ri.
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Let me alay you of any misconception that NK will ever give up nukes. That is tooth fairy nonsense. This is about paying bribes. Hopefully, the president wont pay bribes. Screw NK!! When they threatened us with nuke attack they should have been obliterated.
At least you are also not sucked in by this con job. This is all to get bribes!! Shirley the president wont pay them for this phony act. And dont call me shirley!!
Have witnessed the obfuscation-laden negotiation cycle too many times before, including during George W. Bush who was supposed to be hard line and feared by the Kims and even HE got rolled and got rolled bad. Result? Smoke and mirrors and the mess we are in today.
Come on people; it was a nuclear test facility, that’s where you test your nuclear weapons.
They dismantled a portion of it every time they set off a nuke.
A test facility is exactly that; it’s not where you do the research and construction of your weapons, it’s where you TEST THEM.
“I suspect the dismantling was already done by the Rods of God.”
The extended missions the X-37 has been flying may very well support the theory.
lol.
I am simply astounded by events though I don’t know why.
A bully always folds easily.
Maybe he’ll make lasagna :)
He's got them to release US prisoners and now they are getting a head start on dismantling their main test facility.
Kim must be hurting bad because of the sanctions - a starving, sick, gonna die anyway populace can be hard to control when the end of the rope is reached.....
Plus he’s afraid of dying think.
He’s not a religious zealot. HE LOVES food and women and movies.
He doesn’t want to die for any cause.
And he believes Trump will kill him.
I do too. :)
How about the underground nuke facility was buried when the entire mountain atop it collapsed, killing every scientist, destroying all equipment, losing all available nuke material?
If we pay 1 dime in brides we are rolled again. If kim un wants to get sanctions off sll he needs to do is turn over all nukes. No talks needed.
Something gave Kim an attitude adjustment around the 10th of October 2017.
Unless every one of those generals recently died in a night of the long knives, leaving Kim free to act as he chooses.
One theory is that the generals have been the true rulers of North Korea with Kim Jong Un as figure head. Were someone to eliminate them all leaving Kim as last man standing then maybe the Swiss educated Kim might surprise the world.
:D
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