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North Korea still secretly building missiles & Iran gives a firm 'no' to Trump wanting to meet


https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/north-korea-still-secretly-producing-missiles-1289490499681

So much for foreign policy. I remember people complaining about Obama bowing too low or wasn't tough on his enemies and yet here we are... Pausing military exercises with South Korea, going back on the Iran deal, slapping allies in the face over trade, wanting to be closer to Russia.

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Yup. That's why I couldn't get too excited about news that he has dismantled that one site the other day. Their behavior of external belligerence to the US administration plus their entire history as a country suggested they were not going to give up their nukes. He's now pointing his nukes at the US again.

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Too soon to give him the Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea or Iran?

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Well, you got to give them some credit. They did return 50-55 caskets of dead US marines. We just need to see when it gets to Hawaii if the bodies are legit besides a couple of dog tags they found.

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Arms control experts tell NBC News a July 7th satellite photo shows three heavy-duty truck, indicating North Korea is building long-range missiles at a plant outside Pyongyang, often visited by Kim.


Seems pretty vague to me. Who are these experts and why did they just tell NBC this? What kind of heavy duty trucks are they? What are the trucks used for? How often does Kim visit this site?

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It's not just NBC... it's the intelligence agency saying this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-spy-agencies-north-korea-is-working-on-new-missiles/2018/07/30/b3542696-940d-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?utm_term=.825f1609e0cf

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5816713368001/?#sp=show-clips

Heck even Fox News reported on this.

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I stand corrected, at least you can't fault the guy for trying.

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Sure you can, because in doing so he strengthened NK's hand back home by giving Kim propaganda footage of a lifetime, unilaterally surrendered joint military exercises with SK for nothing, and inadvertently loosened sanctions on North Korea as they've got most favored nation trading status with China now with US no longer applying any real pressure to maintain sanctions. Trump spent any leverage and goodwill he had with China to maintain NK sanctions with this pointless trade war.

Bush and Obama both negotiated with North Korea, failed, yet did not get milked like Santa Claus Donald did. There was a brief period where Trump even held the upper hand in January because Kim was scared shitless that Trump would nuke him into the stone age. Trump squandered away the initiative when his art of the deal got exposed as a fraudulent dud. Kim knows Trump is now just spread too thin and made too many other enemies that he's got nothing to worry about. Especially after shoring up his alliances with China and Putin. Trump would never dare risk cross his Russian handler.

They must have really enjoyed watching that Helsinki spectacle in Pyongyang.

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