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Posted on 07/08/2017 8:07:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
North Korea is a country in isolation, a place where most citizens don't have access to the Internet or the means to travel abroad. In 2010, the New York Times described the country as a “‘hermit kingdom,’ so poor that there is almost no supply of concrete, bricks or window glass. People suffer shortages of rice, gasoline and even underwear.”
And yet. It’s been able to expand its weapons technology at an astounding rate. Earlier this week, it test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile that experts say could have reached Alaska. How has the North been able to make big weaponry advances that experts considered a couple of years away at best?
The answer: North Korea has been developing its nuclear weapon systems expertise for decades. It boasts a cadre of well-trained scientists and engineers and a vast, international financial network that's both supplied the necessary raw materials and funded a billion-dollar weapons development program. And it doesn’t hurt that Kim Jung Un has made the nuclear weapons program a top priority, orienting his entire country toward that goal.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
By purchasing Chinese hardware and getting technical cooperation with Iran.
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But we must apply more “sanctions”....right?
North Korea, like the former USSR, is an empty shell.
Lay siege to NK and she’ll fold like a house of cards as the USSR did.
Thanks Bill Clinton!
>> Lay siege to NK <<
No can do — unless the Norks’ Yalu River border with China is totally closed.
Because of a State Department that has mostly been globalist anti-American and an administration that was traitorous to the very core.
The only thing sanctions do to a nation determined to do something the international community forbids is delay it. Nation states like North Korea, Saddam’s Iraq will not only drive their people into penury but into starvation. We are obviously are seeing it in Nork Land, Saddam partially did it. Mao’s China gave away the country’s grain supply for an entire year in order to acquire fissionable material & expertise from the USSR, result mass starvation in early 1960s China. Something our brilliant “leaders” and totally “clueless-about-nearly-everything” media have forgotten. They all seem to act like every day is the first day of history, like their stuck in a loop as in the ‘Ground Hog Day’ movie.
As then candidate Trump said in the primary,(paraphrasing) ‘We are governed by the stupid!’
There’s lots of ways to lay siege to NK, my FRiend. We didn’t have to literally block all of the USSR’s point of physical access to bring her to her knees. Smart planning and execution will get the job done.
any connection to bill clinton talking bribes from the Chinese military and approving the sale of loral missile guidance technology and the cray supercomputers to run the software?
>> By purchasing Chinese hardware and getting technical cooperation with Iran <<
Yes, those two factors plus enslaving and starving 20-million-plus people in pursuit of virtually a single goal.
As China proved with its own nuclear weapons program in the fifties and sixties, a dirt-poor nation can do just about any “one” thing it wants. Just pour in the resources, to the neglect of almost everything else.
(Moreover, China benifitted mightily from the short-sightedness of Stalin and his successors, who furnished nuclear technology and Soviet advisers to the Chicoms — until Krushchev realized too late what a serious mistake the CCCP had made in this regard.)
taking bribes
“Something our brilliant “leaders” and totally “clueless-about-nearly-everything” media have forgotten. They all seem to act like every day is the first day of history, like their stuck in a loop as in the ‘Ground Hog Day’ movie.”
The article points out that North Korea’s scientists and engineers have stopped making the same mistakes over and over.
Our government has not even begun to learn that.
BJ Clinton helped the ChiComs improve their rocket technology. The ChiComs are passing on this knowledge to the NORKs.
You have to distinguish between what you mean by “our government” and the core of professional USG Intel collectors & analysts (and “contractor analysts “) that have worked on this for years. The “professionals” have known where this has been headed for a very long time. Most in “our government (which I mean to be the “elected & appointed” policy makers - including many GOP!)” prefer the message to be “something else” and want the decision to be made on someone else’s watch. The “media” just repeats the “I-want-to-teach-the-world-to-sing” & “we-are-the-world” mantra and pursues the next “shiny object”.
Again we are governed by the stupid, clueless & not serious!
Also the media is just another form of “Entertainment” anyone who thinks they are there to inform is sadly mistaken!
Undoubtedly.
Iran
Alaska is IRBM range. And the missile was shown on a truck launcher of modest proportions. Compare it to the old Soviet mobile launchers that were engineered from the get-go to handle the massive proportions of an ICBM. North Korea’s missile does not rise to the ICBM category.
Because the rest of the world poo pooed the notion they could get to where they are and did nothing but pick lint from their navels instead of sending fat boy to the corner.
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