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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKim Jong Un badly embarrasses Trump after failed summit by restarting nuclear activity
Kim Jong Un badly embarrasses Trump after failed summit by restarting nuclear activity: MSNBC Korea expertWithin 48 hours after the end of the failed U.S.-North Korea summit in Vietnam, U.S. satellites picked up activity at Kim Jong-uns nuclear test sites, which MSNBC Korea analyst Victor Cha said were timed specifically to embarrass President Donald Trump after he promised for months that North Korea would pursue denuclearization as a result of the tight relationship between the two countries leaders.
Explaining the significance of the satellite imagery of the site, Cha pointed out the rocket test stand, the launch pad, cranes, and railway structures.
Why this is significant is that we did a report on January 20th that showed there was no activity at the site since August, right after the Singapore summit, he said. So the fact that theres been this activity 48 hours after the Hanoi summit, it shows its very deliberate, very purposeful activity. Its really saying to the president, they were not happy with what happened in Hanoi.
We have to see if its just a message or if theyre going to move forward with trying to bring a payload vehicle to the launch platform, Cha went on. Its really difficult to say at this point what their intentions are. But we do know that this is about as embarrassing a thing that the North Koreans could do to the president after the summit in Hanoi. He added that the White House needed to revisit sanctions and that Trump needed to re-evaluate his relationship with Kim.
This is a real moment they need to step back and look at the policy, Cha said. The president has been coddling the North Korean dictator, making excuses for his murdering an American college student, theyve developed more fissile material and weapons between Singapore and Hanoi, and weve reduced our exercising on the Korean peninsula. So weve given a lot, and the North Koreans seem to be not responding in any way thats productive.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/kim-jong-un-badly-embarrasses-trump-after-failed-summit-by-restarting-nuclear-activity-msnbc-korea-expert/
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Kim Jong Un badly embarrasses Trump after failed summit by restarting nuclear activity (Original Post)
catbyte
Mar 2019
OP
He's lucky the Europeans seem to have found away around the Iranian sanctions
TheRealNorth
Mar 2019
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Sure we're a little closer to doomsday
But Trump is embarrassed! Let's make sure our priorities are sorted out correctly, and reassure Trump that we don't notice his embarrassment.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)2. He's lucky the Europeans seem to have found away around the Iranian sanctions
Because otherwise there would be nothing keeping the Iranians from restarting their program too.
onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)3. Just as Putin wants.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)4. Putin and Xi are laughing at McDonald the clown trump now.
Kim just showed how incredibly stupid and incompetent he truly is, and the world is laughing at him now. He's already a national disgrace here in this country, and a national security threat to his own country. What does that say about him to the world? Nothing he says can be trusted, and he's trouble where ever he goes. One of the most hated people alive today., and that's before all his crimes are exposed.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)5. Yet the GOP still loves him ... which says exactly what today's GOP is made of. n/t