When Trump decides to completely scuttle the Summit, he will refer to this action by N. Korea as “TunnelGate”.
Thought 1: You often have to demolish existing structures to make way for improved facilities…
Thought 2: How different would “bomb in a tunnel” sound from artillery fire from behind a hill, especially if one is primed? Something like Brainstorm/Green Needle?
Not that I’m cynical or anything.
The North did not invite international inspectors to the ceremony, which limits its value as a serious concession.
Fuck you AP for not bothering to mention the place was ruined after the last test.
( first fuck-you-AP of the day!)
PUNGGYE-RI, North Korea (AP) — North Korea carried out what it said is
the demolition of its nuclear test site Thursday, setting off a series
of explosions over several hours in the presence of foreign journalists
…
The International Atomic Energy Agency experts and inspectors were not there, journalists were. No disrespect to the profession but they aren’t the needed experts.
And to also mention that any more damage done there by explosions is exceedingly dangerous as radiation could easily be released.
In related, similarly unsavory news, Kim Jong Un often flushes his toilet paper after use.
TMI this early in the morning where I am.
Trump’s hydrogen bombs would have self-destroyed any site they were tested in.
I would remind everyone that the H-bomb test there at Punggye-ri created a cavity inside the mountain. 8 minutes later the core of the mountain collapsed in on itself rendering that area seriously unstable and extremely dangerous. This was/is the only test site for full on atomic explosions N. Korea had. This move is to “save face” for Kim Jong Un. The test was in September. In March Kim was called to Beijing and given a severe dressing down over the test since the site is only 60 miles from China and they were very unhappy about it. This is the reason for Kim’s opening to the West.
This is the nuclear test site that already underwent some kind of cataclysmic collapse, right? This is nonsense and if Trump and his gang members fall for this they are just as stupid as I think they are.
Literally smoke and mirrors. David Copperfield?
it was not only partially collapsed during the last test, it was heavily contaminated with radiation and rendered UNUSABLE because of it.
Cheeto Hitler, in his obsessive scramble to be “more of a man than Obama” will give away the fucking store to Kim just so he can have his butt-lickers put him up for Nobel Peace Prize (and hey, he has ALREADY minted gold coins with his head on one side about his “great achievement in peace” that has not happened, and now probably won’t.
MF Press including TPM it has been reported by numerous publications that the test site was severely damaged by the last nuclear test done there, and the site was nonger usable. I do not understand how the Press chooses to ignore this fact and gives N Korea praise and by extension Trump.
Now, will he let the journalists out of the country after trump cancelled the summit?