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North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org)
The Associated Press is reporting North Korea has announced plans to dismantle its nuclear test site between May 23 and 25. The dismantling will occur before President Trump is scheduled to meet with Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12. NPR reports: Reuters reports that Punggye-ri nuclear test site has been the location of all of North Korea's six known nuclear tests. At the site, there's a system of tunnels under the mountain Mount Mantap. Journalists from the United States, South Korea, China, Russia and Britain will be invited to watch a special ceremony in which all of the tunnels at the testing ground will be destroyed and observation and research facilities and guard units will be taken down. The North Korean government will provide journalists with a charter flight from Beijing to Wosnan, North Korea. From there, a train will take them to the test site in the northeast part of the country.
The AP also reports that at a ruling party meeting last month, North Korea announced the plan to close the nuclear testing ground, along with a commitment to suspend all tests of nuclear devices and ICBMs. At that same meeting, however, North Korea said it has been performing a kind of nuclear test classified as "subcritical." The "subcritical" experiments give scientists an opportunity to test weapons without causing an actual nuclear chain reaction and explosion.
The AP also reports that at a ruling party meeting last month, North Korea announced the plan to close the nuclear testing ground, along with a commitment to suspend all tests of nuclear devices and ICBMs. At that same meeting, however, North Korea said it has been performing a kind of nuclear test classified as "subcritical." The "subcritical" experiments give scientists an opportunity to test weapons without causing an actual nuclear chain reaction and explosion.
No, he's not suggesting that. He's suggesting that this test site was already getting pretty defunct, so as a PR stunt NK is inviting everyone to watch while they blow up the old test site.
You gotta love the Trump apologists.
It goes something like this:
1. It is not that bad.
2. Democrats did it (even if they didn't)
3. No one really cares.
4. Even if it happened it doesn't matter.
Did Trump collude with russians? Yes, we have two examples of proof. First his chosen people had that meeting with Russians. Second Trump openly asked for help on national tv. Will whatever he did along those lines result in jail time? Don't know. Have to wait and see.
Is Trump guilty of pay for play? Most certainly. Trump's lawyer, who represents Trump directly, and is presumably acting with Trump's knowledge directly accepted crazy sums of money for influence. That is obvious influence pedling.
Is Trump guilty of reckless disregard for the environment. Yes, see scott pruit.
Is Trump guilty of far more than Clinton was impeached for? Sure. You've got what a dozen or so women, and at least one confirmed pay off, which certainly was illegal since it was a material contribution way outside of bounds to his campaign.
Is Trump's word good for anything? Nope. He's over 3000 lies since he took office. I believe he has been awarded lie of the year at least once, likely for the birther crap, which was a perfect example of the low form of life that he is.
Is trump generally morally repugnant and unfit for office? Hell yes, see massive insults to gold star families, war heroes(mccain), etc, etc. Hell he just praised the leader of north korea who sent the previous guest to his country home as a vegetable. Meanwhile one of his staff said something repulsive about McCain and he does nothing.
Was getting out of the iran deal wise? Well given that I see no real plan for a better solution, and that other major credible countries are struggling to save it, I'm going to go with no. The fact that gas prices spiked is just an added bonus.
Did trump obstruct justice? Yes, see lester holt interview, and recent interviews by Juliani. Hell he regularly threatens to get involved with the justice department and regularly threatens to fire people. He tried and failed to push Jeff Sessions out only because he dare not actually fire him. Hell he actually apparently approved using the excuse that he fired comey because he was mean to Hillary, and no one with a brain could buy that Trump cared a crap about that.
He also seems to be doing the odd strategy pardon, such with scooter libby, likely to give people a sign if they just hold out the fix is in. I believe his lawyers have even discussed pardoning some of the people under investigation.