In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception
Source: NYT
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 Norths 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. Trumps 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.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/north-korea-missile-bases.html
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)If you believe a single goddamn thing that Donald Trump ever says.
Since MOST of us don't, it's not.
soryang
(3,299 posts)This article is more like a sales pitch for a new costly satellite surveillance system. According to the underlying report, this base has been known since it was under construction two decades ago.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,340 posts)In January, Kim ordered the mass production of ballistic missiles. He never said he would stop producing them or dismantle them. The entire exercise was wishful listening by the Trump administration and its water-carriers.