N. Korea no longer a nuclear threat

WeToddDid2 said:
Yeah, screw diplomacy and building a relationship. That will not get anyone anywhere. The US should just start a war with NK or just nuke their ass.
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Is diplomacy something you accept only with Republican presidents? Your thoughts on not discussing the reason for a diplomatic meeting (rockets over Asia and nuclear war heads) to begin with? How did you feel about the tax payer's expenses on Obama's "apology tour" when he was mending relationships after an atrocious invasion of Iraq? Your take on Obama's diplomatic compromise in Iran? Should we try diplomacy now that they've renewed their nuclearization efforts? Should we ease sanctions when attempting diplomacy?
 
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/while-...ars-to-expand-its-nuclear-arsenal-11564059627

While Trump and Kim Talk, North Korea Appears to Expand Its Nuclear Arsenal
Despite President Trump’s summit diplomacy, security experts say recent satellite images show continued activity at North Korea’s key nuclear facilities

https://nypost.com/2019/07/27/north-korea-has-allegedly-built-a-dozen-nukes-since-singapore-summit/
North Korea has allegedly been busy making 12 new nuclear weapons since the first summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore last June.

Experts from the US Defense Intelligence Agency came to that conclusion after analyzing satellite imagery that showed activity at the North’s nuclear sites had ramped up since the historic meeting, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Analysts believe North Korea could currently have as few as 20 and as many as 60 nuclear bombs, the paper reported.

The images appear to show trucks as well as people moving materials to and from the sites, including the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center. Kim has previously expressed willingness to shut down the facility in part of a future deal.
 
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Just a reminder that thanks to the moron in The White House Irans nuclear prgram is back up and running.


Iran's Uranium Enrichment Breaks Nuclear Deal Limit.

Iran has crossed another line set in the 2015 nuclear deal between it and major world powers.

According to state media, Iran has begun enriching uranium above levels enshrined in the agreement. The move sends a signal that Iran is losing patience with a deal that has not provided the economic relief promised, more than a year after the United States withdrew from the agreement.

By Monday, Iran had reached levels of around 4.5% enrichment, Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told the semiofficial Fars news agency. He warned that Iran could go as high as 20% in the future, though that level is "not needed now."

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran has crossed the line.
 
Tony Stark said:
Just a reminder that thanks to the moron in The White House Irans nuclear prgram is back up and running.


Iran's Uranium Enrichment Breaks Nuclear Deal Limit.

Iran has crossed another line set in the 2015 nuclear deal between it and major world powers.

According to state media, Iran has begun enriching uranium above levels enshrined in the agreement. The move sends a signal that Iran is losing patience with a deal that has not provided the economic relief promised, more than a year after the United States withdrew from the agreement.

By Monday, Iran had reached levels of around 4.5% enrichment, Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told the semiofficial Fars news agency. He warned that Iran could go as high as 20% in the future, though that level is "not needed now."

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran has crossed the line.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/politics/south-korea-united-states-talks-ending-defense/index.html

US and South Korea end talks on sharing cost for maintaining US troops on Korean peninsula

Washington (CNN)Negotiations between the US and South Korea on dividing the cost for maintaining US troops on the Korean peninsula ended abruptly, the two countries announced Tuesday.

The sudden end to the talks, which were in their third round, comes amid renewed tensions between the allies after President Donald Trump hiked the price tag for US forces roughly 400% for 2020, a move that frustrated Pentagon officials and deeply concerned Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

The new $4.7 billion price tag also angered Seoul, which has successfully negotiated the cost sharing agreement with the US for decades and is dealing with newly heightened tensions with North Korea.

James DeHart, the chief negotiator for the US, said at a press briefing that the US delegation came "with open minds, and even prepared to adjust stance as needed in order to move towards a mutually acceptable agreement," but that the South Korean team's proposals were not responsive to US' "fair and equitable burden-sharing."

'Time to reconsider'
"We cut short our participation in the talks today in order to give the Korean side some time to reconsider and I hope to put forward new proposals that would enable both sides to work towards a mutually acceptable agreement in the spirit of our great alliance," DeHart added.

South Korea's chief negotiator Jeong Eun-bo, in his separate press briefing, said that Tuesday's negotiation could not proceed as planned, as the US team not only demanded a significant increase in burden for South Korea, but also added a new category.

"We couldn't conduct the talk as plans as the US team left the venue," Jeong said. "We maintain our current stance that the cost division (between the US and South Korea) needs to be decided based on the Special Measures Agreement frame in which we have agreed for the past 28 years."

At a press conference in Manila Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper reiterated the statement he made earlier in the week that South Korea is a wealthy country and should shoulder more of the defense partnership costs. Esper also said he would not comment on Tuesday's negotiations as they were being handled by the US State Department.

Last week, the secretary was in South Korea to navigate renewed threats from North Korea and the newly heightened strain in the alliance with Seoul following Trump's price hike. Pyongyang recently threatening to step up its weapons development, deepening Seoul's anxiety.

North Korea has already launched 24 missiles this year, each a violation of UN resolutions, to match the country's previous annual record for firing off projectiles that threaten South Korea and Japan, according to Bruce Klingner, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

On Monday, North Korea said it is not "interested" in having "useless" meetings with the US, a day after Trump tweeted "See you soon!" to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the US announced it would postpone joint military exercises with South Korea that Pyongyang had strenuously opposed.

The US-South Korea cost sharing agreement has been in place for decades and, until Trump, was renegotiated every five years. During the 2016 campaign, candidate Trump declared that he would pull US troops from the peninsula if he didn't get 100% compensation for their presence.

Last year, when the Special Measures Agreement came up for negotiation, Trump asked for a 50% increase from Seoul. Ultimately, the two sides agreed South Korea would pay 8% over the prior year's cost, but that the agreement would be renegotiated yearly.

This year, Trump raised the asking price from approximately $1 billion to $5 billion before being convinced by officials at the State Department and Pentagon to winnow that down to the $4.7 billion the country was eventually asked to pay, according to a congressional aide and the administration official.
 
This is one of those very rare cases when I am 100 percent in agreement with Trump. Give me a break, a country with 1.5 trillion USD GDP, can absolutely afford 5 billion. Bunch of free loaders
 
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