Posted on 04/20/2018 4:21:30 PM PDT by mandaladon
CNN Reporter in North Korea Left ‘Speechless’ By Nuclear Announcement: ‘Huge Win For President Trump’(full title)
In a stunning piece of breaking news on Friday evening, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared that he will suspend all nuclear and missile tests, according to state media.
In a statement quoted by South Korean media, the Korean Central News Agency also said a nuclear site where that last six nuclear tests were conducted would be shut down.
“From April 21, North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles,” the Korean Central News Agency said.
CNN’s Will Ripley, one of the few journalists who regularly reports from the repressive Hermit Kingdom, phoned in to Wolf Blitzer’s show on Friday night to cover the breaking news.
“Kim Jong Un has announced to his country and his own people that he has completed his nuclear program, and therefore there is no need to continue developing nuclear weapons,” Ripley reported.
“This is an extraordinarily significant development, and frankly a huge win for President Trump going into these discussions, this potential summit, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,” he continued.
Ripley quoted a North Korean official who had optimistic words about the move: “Finally Kim Jong Un has decided to open up,” the source said. “This is a new chapter for the DPRK. He has committed himself to the path of denuclearization and will now focus solely on economic growth and the national economy. Finally he has realized the best path forward is to open up the country and normalize relations.”
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“””Kim Jong Un has announced to his country and his own people that he has completed his nuclear program, and therefore there is no need to continue developing nuclear weapons,” Ripley reported.
“This is an extraordinarily significant development, and frankly a huge win for President Trump going into these discussions, this potential summit, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,” he continued.”””
Awful lot of words for someone who is “speechless” .
Do NOT take his word. Insist that we destroy his nuclear stockpile, centrifuges, and missiles. Let the Special Ops guys have fun placing and igniting C4 in the underground bunkers, while the Navy and Air Force take out military communications, radars and missile launch pads. Anything less is mental masturbation.
Man,you certainly like posting pictures.
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No worries. Someone in the broadcast booth somewhere will say Obama laid the foundation for this outstanding development.
uh, that’s a FAR cry from denuclearizing the entire peninsula ...
So, the dude was speechless? He was probably disappointed too, since I am sure he didn’t want Trump to win at anything.
Its a step in the right direction.
Until NK irrevocably denuclearizes, sanctions will remain in place.
Its a step in the right direction.
Until NK irrevocably denuclearizes, sanctions will remain in place.
Go ahead Dems, I dare you to keep up the “impeach Trump” mantra as you head into the mid-terms with Trump racking up one amazing foreign policy achievement after another - on top of his booming tax-cut economy!
You forgot US cargo ships being loaded with the dismantled parts.
i’m sorry, but i don’t think this means very much. it just means fatboy has got plenty of nukes that he thinks will work.
every nuclear country went through this phase of testing and then quit testing when they figured they had designs that worked.
it shows fatboy’s nuclear program has reached the next step of maturity.
And how can this be?!
Because he is the kwisatz haderach!
BOOM?
This is an amazing statement. Not just for the confirmation that North Korea is stopping nuke testing, but for the way the official describes it. Unless the translation is inaccurate, this official is acknowledging, by saying "finally" that there's been resistance against business as usual by some others in power. This would be a momentous achievement for the president and his team. A breakthrough has already taken place - Pompeo and his Easter trip is unreal.
(HaHa!!)
That’s why the sanctions remain in place.
Either NK will fulfill its commitment to get rid of nuclear weapons or face internal collapse.
There are limits even to a hermit kingdom’s self-imposed isolation from the outside world.
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