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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 24, 2018, 08:04 AM May 2018

North Korea declares its nuclear test site closed after a 'huge explosion'

Source: The Washington Post




By Anna Fifield
May 24 at 7:05 AM

TOKYO — North Korea said that it had destroyed its nuclear testing site Thursday afternoon, in a gesture designed to show it is still willing to embark on a diplomatic journey with the United States despite the recent ructions.

Foreign journalists taken to the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site said they had witnessed a “huge explosion” at the site, in the mountainous northeast of the country, and that the North Korean officials there told them the site had been dismantled.

The journalists from Russia, China, South Korea, Britain and the United States, reported watching the detonation from about 500 yards away.

“They counted it down — three, two, one,” said Tom Cheshire of Sky News, the British broadcaster. “There was a huge explosion, you could feel it. Dust came at you, the heat came at you. It was extremely loud. It blew an observation tower to complete smithereens.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-expected-to-close-nuclear-test-site-despite-squabbles/2018/05/24/37968082-5f0e-11e8-8c93-8cf33c21da8d_story.html

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North Korea declares its nuclear test site closed after a 'huge explosion' (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
ahhhh ok rtracey May 2018 #1
Kim will keep moving toward re-unification regardless of Trumps bluster. Civic Justice May 2018 #2
Of course, it was already badly weakened to begin with Maeve May 2018 #3
 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
1. ahhhh ok
Thu May 24, 2018, 08:16 AM
May 2018

OK YES, NO MORE NUCLEAR WAR HURRAY...... oh wait, what? this was just a show, this site was not totally destroyed? or This site was outdated and they have several others that can use?........yeah, this is what we will hear in a few days or so.....

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
2. Kim will keep moving toward re-unification regardless of Trumps bluster.
Thu May 24, 2018, 08:38 AM
May 2018

When its said and done it will be N. & S. Korean who will make the peace, with the backing of China. The U.S. only role is to sign the damn document.

Dumb ass Trump had no business concerning S. Korea into engaging Military Drills in the Region at this time. Trump is trying to play and spin it, so he can take some credit, when he has not a damn thing to do with this, beyond 'get out of the way and sign the damn paper.

China and Other Asian Pacific Region are waiting for the work of S. and N. Korea to wrap up, and they will rush into N. Korea and build up Industry. I personally hope they get there and set the tone of cooperation, before any "Imperialist minded greed driven America white men get there trying to dictate something".
N. Korea will join the AIIB ( Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), and they will move on with support from many nations, and the more they keep "Imperialist minded greed driven America white men" at the end of a long pole... they will do just fine. The other nation will seek cooperative agreements that are "mutual benefit"... not like these goons from here who want to go over and play 'power games" as if they control something.
In a Decade, Korea will continue to advance, because S. Korea is advanced and they have much to share. Neither of them will need the U.S. in the ways countries needed the U.S. Post World War II. Because they have all learned that the "Imperialist minded greed driven America white men can't be trusted to play fair and do fair business and respect diplomatic relations".

The bitter truth may not sit well with many, but until we have a full on Democratic Administration that Respect Diplomacy and Respect the principles of Fair Play Cooperative Agreements... then Korea (unified) will move their nations forward, because they are not going to submit themselves to a "Imperialist minded greed driven America white men who have indebted America to the tune of over $20 trillion. and it is only getting worst with the Dumb ass Trump's tax give away and their aims to damage public service and medicare and attack social security. We are everyday watching the media lull people into accepting this stupidity, and american people are falling for it everyday... Every day, the media spins it until they can find a way to force feed it down Americans throat and people are chewing and swallowing it, with a fictional delusion that it will magically change, when it won't magically change. The media has made their way to making people appeased into accepting this stuff; they sling out a few puns and crack a joke, and then they've become accustom to it, and it becomes common in their lives. that form of structured and gamed acceptance is why America, are not as intelligent and certainly not as devoted to Democracy as it was one thought. America is now so weak, it can't even protect its children on school campuses, because it favors the special interest of gun lobbyist and the right wing white man society that lust for weapons.

China is right there to help N. Korea and they will enhance how they do so, and they need the labor and they need to ensure that N. Korea prospers, even Russia will pour money across that border, and they will closely monitor to make sure that America does not come trying any strong arm gaming.

This is the level we have sank, under this vile Republican Imagery that is now seen by the world. The world knows the vile racist and ethnic bias and bigotry of Right Wing "Imperialist minded greed driven America white men, and none of the world will submit themselves nor be hoodwinked to be influenced by that ignorance ever again.


Nations will also work together to help improve Africa, as it moves to ensure that it is no longer accepting of the "Imperialist minded greed driven America white men. They will continue to gain more support from China, and they will build better relations with the neighboring countries in and around the continent.

When these things happen, we will see a decline in Global Conflicts, and certainly we won't continue to see the American influenced madness that has devastated the Middle East.

EVERYONE HAS COMPUTERS and that means EVERYONE has access to information and advanced technology to see and know the truths they need to know to move forward.

China has 5 of the worlds FASTEST Super Computers, and from the last decade of building, they are far superior builders than the U.S. by the examples of the massive projects they build, without budget busting everything, and they do it in record time. They dominate in Industrial Production and they no longer need dominant reliance on the U.S. because they ship to the entire world of nations.

Just as Britain and France said, they would move on without America on Climate Matters as well as with working with Iran.

While we sit here with American white male policemen still playing their Jim Crow Modeled Gaming of attacking Minorities. And we watch the racist ignorance spread across Rural America and the Right White Segments of cities... Nations have no interest in coming here as tourist when they can go many many other places around the world, that has far newer developments and far superior accouterments at their vacation destination locations.
What we have is a white madness spread of expanding ghetto's from one Coast of America to the Next.... and we have been dumb enough to allow a Right Wing Republican Administration to Damage Our Government and Attack Our Justice System.

We either get a Democratic Congress and a Democratic Administration or we further deteriorate and internally destroy this nation.

MULTICULTURAL AMERICA IS WHAT MUST MOVE FORWARD, and that is the Future of America, we will as a nation get "Civic Justice and Social and Civic Equality, with Economic Opportunity with Economic Equilibrium Access for All, that means, Multi Ethnic People, inclusive of Poor Whites.... None of the Multi Cultural Groups will leave out the Poor Whites, sadly if the Poor whites could leave out Multicultural people, they would... But... by the principles of MLK's words and the stand of the Civil Rights Act's principle it is about INCLUSIVENESS for all people, and yes, that means Poor Whites. Its up to poor whites to drop the prejudice and the for all whites to get over the want of white privilege, then we move forward as a Nation. At some point the Poor whites will have no choice but to OPEN their eyes and see how the wealthy whites have used them and played them against themselves by using them as collateral damage variables, in order to deny and push back minorities, and in the process the poor white have been used like cannon fodder by the wealth and well to do whites.

THEN.... AMERICA MOVES FORWARD, AND CAN REJOIN THE WORLD IN ITS MARCH FOR GLOBAL PEACE AND HUMANE REGARD FOR HUMANITY.

I know many DU'er can't stand to face the truths and discuss those about racism, but whether they do or not, the subject won't vanish, because its part of EVERYTHING that has made American disrespect Democracy and Democratic Principles.

Maeve

(42,224 posts)
3. Of course, it was already badly weakened to begin with
Thu May 24, 2018, 08:55 AM
May 2018

So let's just say we're doing it for diplomacy. 'kay?

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