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North Korea rocket site is being monitored 'in real time,' U.S. official says
NBC News ^ | 08 Mar 2019 | Andrea Mitchell

Posted on 03/08/2019 11:04:44 PM PST by blueplum

The U.S. is "watching in real time" developments at a long-range rocket site that North Korea is believed to have rebuilt, a senior State Department official said Thursday.

The Sohae facility has been used in the past for satellite launches that employ similar technology to what is required to fire intercontinental ballistic missiles. It is now back to "normal operating status," according to new commercial images and analysis from two teams of researchers...(snip)

...The State Department official said that while it is important for North Korea to act as it had promised, the U.S. side did not see Sohae as a "critical" part of Pyongyang's missile program because such tests have most recently been from mobile launchers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kimjongun; korea; northkorea; peacetalks; sohae; southkorea; statedept; trump
say cheese!

the opening photograph to the article shows an individual watching a large screen showing the Sohae site. A visual for Kim Jong Un to think about

1 posted on 03/08/2019 11:04:45 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

I’m so sick of the MSM.

Over at the NBC site, it states, “Trump lost big...”

It’s the United States your morons, and we can’t control a mental basket case.

We tried our best to end this peacefully.

Kim is walking out on very thin ice.


2 posted on 03/08/2019 11:12:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne

I detest NBC, too, but Andrea Mitchell, at least, knows how to write a readable article so... you takes em where you finds em


3 posted on 03/08/2019 11:33:31 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: blueplum

I don’t want this to happen but it would be cosmic justice if a Nork missile were to land in D.C. or Nuevo York.


4 posted on 03/09/2019 12:40:55 AM PST by McCarthysGhost
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To: DoughtyOne

“Over at the NBC site, it states, “Trump lost big...”

It’s the United States your morons, and we can’t control a mental basket case.”
..........
They are so filled with hatred for Trump and anything MAGA that they twist anything and everything to denigrate him and us. Did you see 0bammy speech yesterday? Such vile hatred from a expresident.


5 posted on 03/09/2019 12:46:30 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: blueplum

6 posted on 03/09/2019 1:02:48 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Not only at Sohae and at Kangson, but now Sanumdong just north of Pyongyang is recently proving problematic. They are just shifting these facilities around in a shell game, offering to give up others they leave as obsolete. Gotta hand it to the little buggers.

With some of it, remote heat sensing and visual satellite confirmation tends to show Kim was shifting these around and ramping up activity even as talks with the US were continuing. Stuff like this cannot happen without his sign off.

No surprise at all though. It was a known fact he was insincere from the outset. Many people just chose not to listen and got swept up in the confetti and general hoopla but I can’t half blame them I guess


7 posted on 03/09/2019 2:02:39 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Is the coast clear again on FR to begin calling Kim Jong Un the lying cheating POS he always was/is?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Stuff like this cannot happen without his (Xi jinping) sign off. Kim does what he’s told.


8 posted on 03/09/2019 2:10:19 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; PIF

Two things happened yesterday: NK released a news video praising dear leader for being a smiling world diplomat, and NK diplomats were hosted by Russia. Russia of course encouraged Un to stand up to the big bad US, but it was noted that Russia also insists on a non-nuclear peninsula.

Add that to the newsflash out of nowhere the last day of the summit that (whatever) group was declaring themselves an exile govt with Un’s cousin in their ‘protection’.

Plus Trump describing Un as ‘mercurial’.

This could be, it’s not any msg to the US, but posturing in response to the cousin threat, or perhaps things didn’t go so well with Russia and Un feels enough self-confidence to posture against Russia?


9 posted on 03/09/2019 3:13:37 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: PIF

Our surveillance of the sites is FAR better than this image.

Most people would simply not believe our capabilities.


10 posted on 03/09/2019 3:20:44 AM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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To: blueplum

The globalists and Rothchilds are pushing for another war. POTUS needs to pick up the phone and talk to KIm.


11 posted on 03/09/2019 4:07:17 AM PST by iontheball
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To: DoughtyOne

Andrea Mitchell: Deep State mouthpiece.


12 posted on 03/09/2019 5:14:58 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: blueplum

A state department official? Laughable. They are up to their eyeballs in the coup attempt and would do anything to make Trump look bad. I doubt any of the story is true. This is just an attempt to sink the talks permanently


13 posted on 03/09/2019 6:05:09 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

The state department would never lie would they? This is laughable. NBC article sourcing a state department official, who’s evaluating private satellite images from an anti Trump Think Tank. If you can’t trust that what can you trust? LOL

The coup never stops


14 posted on 03/09/2019 6:07:45 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Bobalu

yeah I know back when they were better than that also. I think it is actually some sort of photo being shown or something from a commercial sat


15 posted on 03/09/2019 10:44:11 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: blueplum

Any messages from DJT are directed at Xi Jinping - to the know-nothing press they look like messages to lil kim.


16 posted on 03/09/2019 10:46:36 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Prez...I
love it when honey tariffs go up


17 posted on 03/09/2019 4:03:36 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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