North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say U.S. officials

[riversedge]

Source: nbcnews.com


"Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles," said one U.S. official.
by Courtney Kube, Ken Dilanian and Carol E. Lee / Jun.29.2018 / 5:13 PM ET


WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies believe that North Korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months — and that Kim Jong Un may try to hide those facilities as he seeks more concessions in nuclear talks with the Trump administration, U.S. officials told NBC News.

The intelligence assessment, which has not previously been reported, seems to counter the sentiments expressed by President Donald Trump, who tweeted after his historic June 12 summit with Kim that "there was no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea."

Analysts at the CIA and other intelligence agencies don't see it that way, according to more than a dozen American officials who are familiar with their assessments and spoke on the condition of anonymity. They see a regime positioning itself to extract every concession it can from the Trump administration — while clinging to nuclear weapons it believes are essential to survival.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korea-has-increased-nuclear-production-secret-sites-say-u-n887926

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[Iliyah]

1. And the US stopped the military excerises with South Korea.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Trump Is The Biggest Offender Of Fake News...

..The Rest Of The World And Sane People Are Laughing
At His Dumb Ass.

[riversedge]

4. recall this tweet from Trump saying that NK is no longer a nuclear threat!! Then bragging

about himself.

Link to tweet

[Grassy Knoll]

7. Such An Asshole..

Thanks For That Tweet.

[Iliyah]

3. And where are Korean war American soldiers bodies?

[soryang]

6. Maybe they will be delivered at the time of the next meeting with Pompeo

This is what has been speculated in the S. Korean media.

[msongs]

5. sounds more and more like trump betrayed the nation does it not? nt

[keithbvadu2]

8. Analysts at the CIA and other intelligence agencies must be lying to make Dotard look bad.

Analysts at the CIA and other intelligence agencies must be lying to make Dotard look bad.

Obama leftovers, deep state and whatever conspiracy theories Donald's administration can come up with to make everyone but Dotard look bad.

When will our pal Rocketman come to visit the White House?

[volstork]

9. Well this CAN'T be true.

trumpy said they disarmed!

[WePurrsevere]

10. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you...

Let's see... How many times in the past has NK agreed to denuclearization?
Here's one of many articles on this...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-11/a-rough-guide-to-north-korea-s-many-promises-to-abandon-nukes

[keithbvadu2]

17. There have been many 'historic' meetings and signatures...

Hang on for all the good things coming from NK.

There have been many 'historic' meetings and signatures...

[Turbineguy]

11. No point in telling trump

he won't believe it anyway.

[George II]

12. trump was played like a fiddle!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Trump gave away more to NKorea and got less than any previous US President. . . . nt

[LenaBaby61]

14. SO, I guess that since Kim Jun-Un has increased nuclear production in N. Korea ...

tRump will probably say that he lied to him (He didn't actually, NOKO never had a binding agreement to STOP nuclear production), there will be an escalation on his half to go to war and that will be that. It's bad enough that this country is almost in a constitutional crisis state, but to have a war to wag the dog on top of it, because President Fatso's trying to DEFLECT from the Muller investigations and from what he's done with his zero tolerance policy, where there may be up to 4,000 children who've been separated from their families.

[Marcuse]

15. If the Iran deal is the Mona Lisa, then the NorK deal is a pre-K fingerpainting.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. When will all of us stop believing this guy's lies ??? Enough already! I know that ...

we on DU have already reached the point of no return in believing anything rump says or does, but soon, the rest of America will follow, when they continue to see for themselves all of the obvious untruths right in their faces, i.e., North Korea, etc.

[Achilleaze]

18. the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief got suckered

what a maroon

[Snellius]

19. Who's leaking this? The CIA in revolt?

This is high level intelligence being leaked to the press. Those in the "deep state", loyal to the security of the nation, may see Trump as much as NK as a real threat.

[Bayard]

20. Lied right to his face to gain more time

Politicians never do that!

[DesertRat]

21. Art of the Deal

[soryang]

22. When you start from zero there is a long way to go

These sorts of "assessments" or "estimates" are short on furnishing evidence and substitute their opinions.

The real problems are mostly practical. There are potentially over a hundred sites that need to be examined and monitored.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Trump-Kim-Summit/IAEA-faces-daunting-task-if-US-North-Korean-summit-succeeds

They don't have enough qualified inspectors.


Billions for nuclear weapons, not much for denuclearization. There is not much incentive for a constellation of political and economic interests that thrive on conflict.

Post article identified Kangson as the second site of the uranium enrichment facility. So I guess this means they do know where it is. Is this the place? Why don't they produce the evidence?

https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-271633&fid=3390&c=north_korea