IsntLifeFunny Posted March 4, 2019 Report Share Posted March 4, 2019 Wasn’t the clarion call of the right WMD? My how the times are a changing. Justafan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkiller Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700551337/north-korea-seen-reassembling-rocket-test-site Satellite imagery suggests that North Korea may be taking steps to reactivate a partially decommissioned long-range rocket test site on the country's west coast. Experts say they see evidence that workers are rebuilding at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. In a matter of days, a rocket-engine test stand and a large transfer structure have been reassembled, according to Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., a senior fellow for imagery analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The structures were taken down over the course of last summer, Bermudez says, and reassembled in a matter of days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titans279 Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 I wonder how many promised deals Trump has to fail to deliver before his fans realize his “epic deal making skills” were a manufactured reality TV fantasy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 2 hours ago, Titans279 said: I wonder how many promised deals Trump has to fail to deliver before his fans realize his “epic deal making skills” were a manufactured reality TV fantasy. Infinity? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legaltitan Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 Just to tie a nice ribbon around this pile of dog poo: North Korea is rebuilding its launch facility and appears to be prepping for a test. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korea-rebuilding-long-range-rocket-site-photos-show-n979721 And there's this little nugget: Quote “That’s not what the North Koreans said,” Pompeo responded. “Don’t say things that aren’t true. ... Show me the quote from the North Koreans that said this was their one and only offer. Where’d you get that?” After he was read a quote from Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho – in which he said “our proposal will never be changed” – Pompeo fell silent for about six seconds. Then he countered, “What they said is they’re prepared to continue conversations with us and that’s what we intend to do.” Man I can't figure out how an administration that doesn't understand the other side's bargaining position can't get a deal done. And yet, despite all this buffoonery, incompetence, naivete and grandstanding, I still give Trump credit for trying to get something done. Would have been cool if he had been educated about the issues and prepared ahead of time, but that was never going to happen. MadMax, and Mythos27 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legaltitan Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 Oh, and there's this: I mean, what the hell can you say at this point, except just laugh. OILERMAN, IsntLifeFunny, MadMax, and 1 other 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMax Posted March 6, 2019 Report Share Posted March 6, 2019 20 minutes ago, Legaltitan said: Oh, and there's this: I mean, what the hell can you say at this point, except just laugh. Wow. And this is the guy who is to MAGA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkiller Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/22/trump-north-korea-sanctions-remove-1232586 President Donald Trump on Friday declared he would unwind new sanctions on North Korea that his administration rolled out just a day before, announcing the remarkable reversal in a tweet. “It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea,” he wrote. “I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!” In a follow-up statement explaining the reversal, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary." Trump appeared to be referring to an announcement on Thursday in which Treasury said it was sanctioning two China-based shipping companies accused of helping North Korea evade existing economic sanctions. The president on Friday did not explain the reason for reversing his administration’s policy, which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement Thursday were aimed at “making it explicitly clear that shipping companies employing deceptive tactics to mask illicit trade with North Korea expose themselves to great risk.” begooode 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OILERMAN Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 Putin pulling the strings! MadMax 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
begooode Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 30 minutes ago, Starkiller said: President Donald Trump on Friday declared he would unwind new sanctions on North Korea that his administration rolled out just a day before, announcing the remarkable reversal in a tweet. “It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea,” he wrote. “I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!” In a follow-up statement explaining the reversal, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary." WTF. Seriously, please tell me this is a joke. It's beyond comical watching this administration absolutely flail through a week; week after week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former_Fan Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 This is an epic disaster unfolding. I'm just waiting for the first nuclear or missile test to resume. This will be Trumps biggest failure to date. He had one shot at diplomacy and it has failed. At this point Kim is just playing him like a puppet. The summits only empowered Kim, and made him more relevant, and he now holds the poker card. I really don't see a peaceful resolution at this point. Any more sanctions will swiftly bring back the pre summit rhetoric, and we will be back at square one with likely no second chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legaltitan Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 Just now, Former_Fan said: He had one shot at diplomacy and it has failed. Yes, but the really dumb thing is HE SET IT UP that way, to only have "one shot" at diplomacy. This is what everyone warned about pre-summit, that it was too early for a summit, because if you have a summit and it doesn't work and things breakdown, you have nowhere to go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former_Fan Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 5 minutes ago, Legaltitan said: Yes, but the really dumb thing is HE SET IT UP that way, to only have "one shot" at diplomacy. This is what everyone warned about pre-summit, that it was too early for a summit, because if you have a summit and it doesn't work and things breakdown, you have nowhere to go. Well I think everyone could see how fake the first summit was. Kim wanted all sanctions lifted and to keep his nukes, and Trump wanted complete denuclearization. Neither was going to play out like that and what was the compromise? Partial sanction relief in exchange for partial nuclear disarmament? This deal was never in the cards. NK has been discreetly working on it's nuclear program and in the mean time we cancelled our largest annual military exercises which keep us in a ready state in case of conflict. We have lost readiness and they have gained time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No1TitansFan Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 The testing facility was greatly damaged during a test; of course Kim offered to "end testing" at the summit, because he knew it would be months before he could resume. Played Trump like a fiddle. Starkiller 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OILERMAN Posted April 18, 2019 Report Share Posted April 18, 2019 North Korea Tests New Weapon, State News Agency Says President Trump has considered the North’s self-imposed moratorium his administration’s biggest achievement in its dealings with North Korea. The United States has been attempting to negotiate with the North for months to end its increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapons and missile programs. But the last summit meeting in February between Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim abruptly ended without a deal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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