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This is so cool. Probably my favorite thing about Trump is how his foreign policy emboldens and strengthens America's geopolitical enemies. The Kim regime is a great ally of Syria and the Resistance Axis. Anything that damages US geopolitical goals is bad for Israel and good for Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. Good for pretty much all of the world except Israel. US geopolitical goals aren't beneficial for Americans so there is no loss for myself to support Trump here.
My biggest hope for the future of east Asia is that Apple gets to expand to the North Korean market. They could have a Kim Jong Un emoji!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/north-korea-missile-bases.html
My biggest hope for the future of east Asia is that Apple gets to expand to the North Korean market. They could have a Kim Jong Un emoji!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/north-korea-missile-bases.html
WASHINGTON — North Korea is moving ahead with its ballistic missile program at 16 hidden bases that have been identified in new commercial satellite images, a network long known to American intelligence agencies but left undiscussed as President Trump claims to have neutralized the North’s nuclear threat.
The satellite images suggest that the North has been engaged in a great deception: It has offered to dismantle a major launching site — a step it began, then halted — while continuing to make improvements at more than a dozen others that would bolster launches of conventional and nuclear warheads.
The existence of the ballistic missile bases, which North Korea has never acknowledged, contradicts Mr. Trump’s assertion that his landmark diplomacy is leading to the elimination of a nuclear and missile program that the North had warned could devastate the United States.
“We are in no rush,” Mr. Trump said of talks with the North at a news conference on Wednesday, after Republicans lost control of the House. “The sanctions are on. The missiles have stopped. The rockets have stopped. The hostages are home.”
His statement was true in just one sense. Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to the halt of missile flight tests, which have not occurred in nearly a year. But American intelligence officials say that the North’s production of nuclear material, of new nuclear weapons and of missiles that can be placed on mobile launchers and hidden in mountains at the secret bases has continued.
And the sanctions are collapsing, in part because North Korea has leveraged its new, softer-sounding relationship with Washington, and its stated commitment to eventual denuclearization, to resume trade with Russia and China.