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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 05:36 PM Dec 2018

New satellite images reveal activity at unidentified North Korean missile base

Source: CNN



By Zachary Cohen, CNN

Updated 4:31 PM ET, Wed December 5, 2018

Washington (CNN) - New satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN reveal North Korea has significantly expanded a key long-range missile base located in the mountainous interior of the country, offering yet another reminder that diplomatic talks with the US have done little to prevent Kim Jong Un from pursuing his promise to mass produce and deploy the existing types of nuclear warheads in his arsenal.

The satellite imagery offers evidence that the Yeongjeo-dong missile base and a nearby, previously unreported site remain active and have been continuously upgraded, underscoring the reality of just how far apart Washington and Pyongyang are on the issue of denuclearization despite five months of sporadic talks.

While the base at Yeongjeo-dong has long been known to US intelligence agencies and analysts, researchers at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey told CNN that the images reveal construction on a new facility just seven miles away from the older site that had not been previously publicly identified.

'The base remains active'

"Satellite images show that the base remains active. Moreover, in the past year North Korea has significantly expanded a nearby facility that appears to be another missile base," the report states, noting that it is unclear whether the two bases are separate, or whether one is subordinate to other.





Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/politics/north-korea-satellite-images-missile-base/index.html?utm_content=2018-12-05T19%3A31%3A23&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image

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New satellite images reveal activity at unidentified North Korean missile base (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2018 OP
45: "l phoned the wonderful kim and he crossed his heart AJT Dec 2018 #1
Kim Jong Un sends Trump a Christmas card, and it's all OK Faygo Kid Dec 2018 #2
donald won't believe it as it comes from CNN that he iluvtennis Dec 2018 #3
No, No, No! Dismantling. Clean the lens on that satellite camera. keithbvadu2 Dec 2018 #4
Of course! SharonAnn Dec 2018 #5
MAGA JI7 Dec 2018 #6
CNN: Bernie Sanders: Trump on right track with North Korea TomCADem Dec 2018 #7

AJT

(5,240 posts)
1. 45: "l phoned the wonderful kim and he crossed his heart
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 05:46 PM
Dec 2018

that nothing was going on. He said I am the greatest man ever and he loved me."

iluvtennis

(19,852 posts)
3. donald won't believe it as it comes from CNN that he
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 06:30 PM
Dec 2018

dubs as fake news.

Fake occupant of the white house is more like it

keithbvadu2

(36,783 posts)
4. No, No, No! Dismantling. Clean the lens on that satellite camera.
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 06:34 PM
Dec 2018

No, No, No! Dismantling. Clean the lens on that satellite camera.

Dotard says Rocketman is "very honorable".

(Sarcasm thingie goes here)

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
7. CNN: Bernie Sanders: Trump on right track with North Korea
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 01:27 AM
Dec 2018

This can't be. Hasn't North Korea been one of the areas that Bernie Sanders has been supportive of Trump? First, in 2017, when he praised Trump's plan to just lean on China to control North Korea, then just a few months ago when Trump agreed to a face to face meeting with no actual plan or agreement on the table.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/bernie-sanders-north-korea-donald-trump-cnntv/index.html

(CNN)Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump don't agree on much, but the Vermont independent says that if the President is genuinely coaxing China to help moderate North Korea, he is "doing the right thing."

"North Korea is a real danger to this world, and we have got to do everything we can to ... prevent a nuclear war and to get them to stop their nuclear program," said Sanders, speaking with CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day."

"China has got to apply the screws and tell North Korea that if their economy is going to survive, they cannot continue expanding their nuclear arms program and their missile program," he added.

"China is, in fact, the key," Sanders continued. "People have been working on China for years. If Trump is doing that, he's doing the right thing."


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/391859-sanders-trump-kim-summit-a-positive-step

Bernie Sanders: Trump-Kim summit a 'positive step'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday expressed cautious optimism about President Trump's historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"While very light on substance, the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore represents a positive step in de-escalating tensions between our countries, addressing the threat of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, and moving toward a more peaceful future," Sanders said in a statement.

"Congress has an important role to play in making sure this is a meaningful and serious process and not just a series of photo ops," he added.
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