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FreeStateDemocrat

(2,654 posts)
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 04:34 PM Mar 2018

Ahead of Trump summit, new activity at North Korea nuke site

Source: AP/msn.com

TOKYO — Increased activity at a North Korean nuclear site has once again caught the attention of analysts and renewed concerns about the complexities of denuclearization talks as President Donald Trump prepares for a summit with Kim Jong Un in the coming weeks.

Satellite imagery taken last month suggests the North has begun preliminary testing of an experimental light water reactor and possibly brought another reactor online at its Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center.

Both could be used to produce the fissile materials needed for nuclear bombs.

The findings come at a particularly sensitive time. Trump and Kim are planning to meet by May, according to officials, and denuclearization will likely be the biggest topic on their agenda if they do meet. North Korea tested its biggest nuclear device to date last September. Pyongyang claims it was an H-bomb.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ahead-of-trump-summit-new-activity-at-north-korea-nuke-site/ar-BBKO1EB?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout



Kim and the Chinese will play PINO like an old fiddle and dumb fuck will not even be aware he's been had until we all have to pay the bill for his feckless arrogance.
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Ahead of Trump summit, new activity at North Korea nuke site (Original Post) FreeStateDemocrat Mar 2018 OP
Of course NK will ramp up it's nuclear materials. louis-t Mar 2018 #1
Agree iluvtennis Mar 2018 #2
Knowing trump's past negotiating sucesses, he would probably have an agreement with NK to buy still_one Mar 2018 #3

louis-t

(23,380 posts)
1. Of course NK will ramp up it's nuclear materials.
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 04:50 PM
Mar 2018

That way, they can give up a few things and won't be any worse off than they are now, with full approval of dotard.

still_one

(92,782 posts)
3. Knowing trump's past negotiating sucesses, he would probably have an agreement with NK to buy
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 06:19 PM
Mar 2018

nuclear war heads from us in exchange for allowing trump hotels to be set up in NK



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