Posted on 04/03/2018 10:05:18 AM PDT by blam
Despite a visible and encouraging thaw in relations between North and South Korea, Pyongyang appears to be readying a move that could torpedo upcoming talks with the US, and potentially bring about an all-out war.
The launch in question isn't a missile launch, which has often stoked tensions before, but a satellite launch, and it demonstrates how fraught talks between the US and North Korea have become.
Time and time again, the US and North Korea have entered into talks with the goal of denuclearization, but more often than not, North Korea blows up the deal by launching a satellite vehicle. While past agreements between North Korea and the US have prohibited missile testing, negotiators in Pyongyang have cleverly exploited the fact that the agreements don't touch on space programs.
Launching a satellite into Earth's orbit requires much of the same technology that North Korea uses to launch a ballistic missile, and potentially a nuclear warhead. So the US has always rejected this cleverness and abandoned multiple rounds of talks with North Korea after satellite launches.
But now, as North Korea prepares to meet face-to-face with a sitting US president for the first time in history, experts assess it's working on another satellite launch.
"Pyongyang and Washington's position on their satellite launches are radically different, and thus a crisis may arise once again and one cannot say it will not end up with a war," Cheong Seong-chang, a senior researcher at the Sejong Institute, told NK News.
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won’t happen. Trump settled this all back in November already.
Clowns will be clownin’...
Now why would you want to practice if you’re going out to business?
“Art of the deal”
Correct.
Mattis and a secret arsenal of space-based kinetic energy weapons woke the Norks up to the reality of their total destruction in about 15 minutes.
“and a secret arsenal of space-based kinetic energy weapons”
The Dems killed this years ago.
BUT...
We should knock it down with Aegis based SM3.
Funny, talk of North Korea satellite tests and new Chinese tariffs just after lieawatha warrens visit to China days ago
I’m sure it’s just coincidence and not a concerted effort by the deep state to hamper Trump
Hopefully this will be a good opportunity for target practice for our anti-missile / anti-satellite weapons.
“...one cannot say it will not end up with a war,”
Then again one cannot say it will not end in peace.
Or, maybe not...
Bargaining chip - just another satellite launch with nuclear warhead ... oh hum ...
The Dems killed this years ago.
Uh...no, no they didn't.
If I told you how I know, I'd have to shoot you...
China doing a bit of tariff pot-stirring via their NK proxy?
> “The Dems killed this years ago.”
Many programs die but are revived in different forms.
https://taskandpurpose.com/kinetic-bombardment-kep-weaponry
Mattis hinted last year that he had the option:
And he confirmed he could take out NK in 15 minutes.
The ‘collapse’ of the NK nuclear bunker last year is rumored to have been a US strike letting NK know that it’s game over.
I wouldn’t expect DOD to announce KEPs or Rods from God is operational.
I believe very little coming out of Business Insider.
Translation; MSM says Trump will kill us all
Same as it ever was.
I would add that North Korea is and has been involved in activities that constitute an act of war for years.
recall the stories about $34 screws and $16,000 toilet sets? yeah? It wasn’t because the screws actually cost $34 each. And Congress knows this which is why they never bring it up.
N Korea Looks To Be Preparing A Launch That Could Torpedo Talks And Bring A Full On War With The US
edzo4 wrote:
Funny, talk of North Korea satellite tests and new Chinese tariffs just after lieawatha warrens visit to China days ago.
I’m sure it’s just coincidence and not a concerted effort by the deep state to hamper Trump
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-senator-warren-in-beijing-says-us-is-waking-up-to-chinese-abuses-2018-4
Hype. Satellite launches are coordinated globally and monitored.
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