Posted on 11/15/2018 8:49:21 PM PST by bitt
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea has tested a new tactical weapon, the Norths official news media said on Friday, reporting that Kim Jong-un witnessed the event in his first publicized visit to a weapons test site since the country test-launched its intercontinental ballistic missile last November.
State media did not identify the weapon, and the test did not appear to violate the voluntary moratorium North Korea imposed on nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests this year. Still, Mr. Kims renewed activities at weapons test sites could complicate the already stalled talks between North Korea and the United States over how to remove the Norths nuclear weapons.
North Korea tends to use the prospects of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula as leverage when negotiations with Washington do not go in its favor. In recent weeks, it has issued vague threats that it might resume testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles should the United States continue to refuse to make concessions like easing sanctions.
On Friday, the Norths official Korean Central News Agency said Mr. Kim visited the testing ground of the Academy of Defense Science, the center of weapons development in North Korea, and supervised a newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon test"
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Finally. Sanity. Again on FR. Thank you.
You mean that they suddenly discovered Gunpowder?
Was it an M-80 noisemaker?
A wrist-rocket slingshot?
Dang, Ma, ya beat me to the punch!
That intel community you mention...that the same US intel that launched a covert op to derail Trumps campaign and a coup attempt after he won? That intel community?
Hows things going there at the State Department today sport?
Take articles like that one from oligarch-sponsored propaganda companies like the New York Times with a big grain of salt. They’re pecking away at your minds.
Donald Trump: NYT Story on North Korea Missile Bases More Fake News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3705612/posts
Do you really believe that Secretary Mike P. blindly trusts anyone? That’s highly unlikely, and his Dept. doesn’t work in isolation. Neither does the Pres.
The new Dept. isn’t like the old Dept.
Report: State Dept. says Hezbollah flooding Peru, Bolivia with terrorist assets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3706241/posts
2.5 years to go to retirement! ;-) /s
Pompeo actually strikes me as somewhat naive. Ive watched him. At least his behavior and watching the Norks publicly yeah mercilessly and embarrassingly jack him around and his demeanor in Pyongyang on visits there spoke to me of an unfamiliarity with Asia at a deep level and particularly vis a vis DPRK. Bolton much better suited to not take crap or be fooled, anyways this pathetic and painful to watch house of cards charade is collapsingof thinking the Kim regime would (ever) give up nukes freely and come clean, over mere optics and niceties and photo ops in Singapore. I gave it six months on FR and it seems to be on course. Privately, people in the Administration admit its not going anywhere. I dont fall for the beltway soon and DC optics.
It doesn’t matter, if dems had their way they would have given them our secrets like clinton and China
Look at the source. nuff said.
More than a silly wrist rocket, bud, I’m sorry to say. Internal reports are emerging from South Korean intelligence, and Japan intelligence this was a KN-series rocket (not sure, KN-8, or what, just a missile engine test or what). Source: Chosun Ilbo daily news, conservative daily from Seoul, Korea
They fed 500 fat people a lot of kimchi and locked a regular person in a big room with them....the regular person didn’t make it.
I was gathering speed rolling down hill and just managed to grab the keyboard on the way by.
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