Posted on 06/07/2018 7:58:09 AM PDT by caww
New commercial satellite imagery indicates that North Korea is razing the missile test stand at the Iha-ri Driver Training and Test Facility north of the city of Kusong in the wake of Kim Jong Uns April statement announcing a unilateral suspension of ballistic missile and nuclear tests. The stand is the only known facility used for land-based, canister-launched ballistic missile ejection tests critical for developing the solid-propellant Pukguksong-2 (KN-15) medium-range ballistic missile and its follow-on systems. The stand could also have been used for testing larger canister-based ballistic missiles such as the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) displayed during the April 2017 military parade in Pyongyang. It is unclear whether the destruction of the stand is an indication that the North is suspending this portion of its missile program or that Pyongyang plans to erect other similar facilities in the future.
(with analysis by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. and maps at site)
(Excerpt) Read more at 38north.org ...
Oh they can do a whole lot more even than that. Have a family member who worked in one of their special security planes. Of course he could not talk much about what they do but in general terms. However it’s absolutely apparent our military can, lets say, walk on water.
Because I think they meant to say raising...
They’ve got some ignorant slob writing headlines.
The story may be accurate.
Hard to hide those sites from even commercial satellite imagery, let alone military.
Might be that they're getting less and less.
I wonder how much this has to do with China saying to the Norks you crap up our country with radioactivity and we will stick a warhead up your azz beside the one you keep there daily anyway ?
Awesome. And I bet the ZTE settlement was another chess move by Trump, knowing China stands to score big if/when the NK market opens up. More Art of the Deal with the Chinese president, who Trump knows is the puppet master of Kim.
Great! Now if we can quit making fun of him until after he gives up all his nukes...
I don’t have a problem with the Chinese people, but their government is a rogue government. It is intent on grabbing as much of the region as the rest of the world will allow it to.
It plans on becoming a global player to counter the very nation that made it rich.
I am not convinced China cares much about Kim’s activity. Have they finally figured out that their capital is closer to North Korea than ours is? I don’t know. Do they really care what he does? I don’t know.
IMO < it’s 50/50 if they care or not. It’s 50/50 if they are helping us for some reason.
I suspect that China realizes that if we cut off trade with it, it’s financials would reach zero in about two weeks.
I get the impression they are stretched to the absolute limit, and could not sustain their over-reach if we pulled out.
We on the other hand could manufacture here or somewhere else.
I don’t think replacing us as buyers would be very easy. If it were, they would have already done it.
Yes indeed......
Some say there is no known way of detecting secret centrifuge facilities for enriching uranium because these can be smaller than an office building, would easily fit into an underground tunnel, consume very little electricity and release almost no thermal or chemical emissions..so makes them hard to find.
No matter how extensive verification will end up happening in the N.K. it’s going to be a long process.
Razing as in covered with raisins.
.....why not just say dismantling?....
When reading articles from foreign news sites it’s fair to consider their use of vocabulary is not going to jive with what we might use.
A good example is the word ‘Peace’.....in general the western world understands what that means, however when a muslim uses the word peace they see it and understand only that peace must be through Islam...their ultimate goal to convert the world to Islam is the only way to peace.
That’s certainly been toned down by our administration...however to expect the public of doing so is way too high of an expectation as too few would do so.
From what I can tell, the most important thing to remember about tyrants is their ultimate power is something like one tenth or less than what they advertise.
How about all the mobile launch platforms they have?
Underground systems have to be ventilated. There will be a heat signature someplace where the air is being discharged after passing through the facility. They can be found and likely we already know where they are.
In the surviving audio, Hitler seemed quite normal compared to his public persona. Any way, Hitler said (as accurate as the translation was) something about scamming whomever he met, and it was a good thing that they didn't call his bluff, etc.
You describe the life story of the Sociopath. It happens again and again, no exceptions.
Every single soul involved in nefarious deep state activities entertains the thought.
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