Posted on 08/13/2017 6:06:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A confidential Central Intelligence Agency assessment of North Korea’s re-entry vehicles indicates the country has what it needs to carry out a nuclear strike on the continental U.S., sources knowledgable about the report told The Diplomat.
North Korea conducted its second test of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile in late July, and while the CIA assesses that the re-entry vehicle did not survive the lofted test, it assumes that the re-entry vehicle would perform properly if the missile were fired along a normal trajectory, the sources with direct knowledge of the assessment told The Diplomat.
The CIA assesses that the lofted trajectory put additional stress on the re-entry vehicle, causing it to fail during testing, but believes that the technology would probably not encounter performance problems on a minimum energy trajectory.
The U.S. has sought comfort and a sense of security by denying that North Korea could produce an ICBM, by refusing to accept that North Korea could miniaturize a nuclear warhead, and by consistently highlighting North Korea’s inability to develop a functional re-entry vehicle.
But the latest report indicates the U.S. is running out of excuses to downplay the North Korean nuclear threat.
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Sadly, the first thing I would find out is if the intelligence asset was a democrat or not.
Thanks to Clinton, Bush, and Obama for kicking the radioactive can down the road. Now Trump is forced to clean up this mess.
This is not going to happen. There is no reason for Kim to go further than whining like a little girl.
Do the NORKS have the targeting co-ords for San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington DC?
Let us all jail bill Clinton, bush, obama and Hillary for getting us here
Thanks to Clinton, Bush, and Obama for kicking the radioactive can down the road.
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They all knew that diplomacy wasn’t working. North Korea viewed their lack of resolve as weakness, and they kept on developing their lethal capabilities. And still, the pointless attempts at diplomacy, more ‘Talks’, and failed buy off schemes continued.
This is what happens when America elects pandering and disingenuous politicians instead of real leaders.
And now America is imperiled and its Trump’s problem.
Bill Clinton said his "peace deal" with North Korea would mean a safer United States and that North Korea would completely disarm. That was a lie. Not only was it a lie, his administration transferred much of the technology that the Nork's are using in their guidance systems to China, NK's primary and largest trading partner as well as benefactor.
G.W. Bush said North Korea would never obtain a nuclear weapon, yet did precious little to stop them beyond weak sanctions.
Barack Obama mirrored the Clinton "peace deal" during his administration and claimed the Nork's would disarm and never get a nuclear weapon. Clearly that was a lie too!
So here we are with a Donald J. Trump Presidency and finally we have a President that's standing up to the North Korean bully. Truth be told, anyone who's read the history of the Korean peninsula post WW2 knows there is far more at stake for China than for the United States. The last thing China wants is a North Korea/United States war on its own border. That would mean MILLIONS of refugees flooding its own border, something which China cannot handle.
It would also mean a defeated North Korea turned into occupied US Territory and another ally in Asia on China's own doorstep. They're deathly afraid of losing North Korea to the United States because it would increase our presence and directly challenge them militarily in their own back yard.
The Chinese have lost control of their puppet Kim Jong-un. They cannot or will not reign him back in. I suspect they cannot AND will not because it would mean they have to rebuild North Korea and assume care for millions more when they cannot care for their own people.
It is China that's between a rock and a hard space here, not the United States. North Korea is an out of control puppet. None of this ends well for China no matter how I look at it, again with an understanding of the Korean peninsula post WW2.
It's time to call North Korea and China's bluff, President Trump. That's exactly what he's doing.
You said in one sentence what just took me paragraphs! Dammit I wish I was as succinct as you!
Just wait until Iran gets the bomb - they copied the NORK model.
Then, where will all those INTEL reports from the end of the Bush administration saying the Iranians had halted their nuke program be?
Thanks Deep State and Pres. Obama...
You forgot Ms. Wendy Sherman the Dept. of State key negotiator who mishandled the NORK agreements and the Iranian ones as well...
You forgot Ms. Wendy Sherman the Dept. of State key negotiator who mishandled the NORK agreements and the Iranian ones as well...
The question remains......Is that North Korean dimwit really that stupid and mentally deranged enough to do it and is China displaying their ignorance by not intervening and telling this fool to get a life and cut the crap, unless they don’t care what happens to their biggest trading partner, as their trade certainly would suffer if this dimwit in NK would pull some nuclear stunt. On the other hand maybe it is all political posturing and no one actually plans to do anything, lets hope.
My friends. Last week it was the ‘miniature’ nukes that could fit on conventional missiles. Now it’s this. Someone is feeding us information with salt.
Why do I feel like this is a redux of the Iraq war?
I’m not saying that they aren’t working on one and shouldn’t be. But we could really be stepping in it big time given the state of the rest of the world at this time.
Dammit I wish I was as succinct as you!
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I’m just try to be economical with words. :)
....Do the NORKS have the targeting co-ords for San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington DC...
GPS will get it done.
I no longer am worried about a cremation contract with a funeral director. Yippee!!!
So wait for the Hindus to start fighting the Chicoms, and let’s just go ahead and wipe out the North Koreans finally. I’m sick of these people.
It’s quite obvious that that is the case. I am unsure why the Deep State wants this war, unless they think it will go badly for Trump.
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