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US intelligence agencies have determined that North Korea continues to work on missile development. The new data conflicts with US President Trump’s tweet several weeks ago that North Korea is “no longer a Nuclear Threat.” Abigal Tracy, writing in Vanity Fair, assesses the outcome of the Trump-Kim meeting in Singapore:
“Despite several setbacks in U.S.-North Korea relations since the summit, Trump remains satisfied with the results. “You haven’t had a missile fired off in nine months,” he boasted at a press conference with Italy’s prime minister on Monday. “We got our prisoners back. So many things happened. So positive.” Yet even as he brags about his “great meeting” with Kim, reality is setting in. Citing officials familiar with the intelligence, The Washington Post reports that work is advancing on at least one, if not two, liquid-fueled intercontinental missiles at a research facility in Sanumdong, the same factory where the Kim regime produced the first such missile capable of reaching the U.S. Meanwhile, there are also reports that uranium enrichment continues at another North Korean facility, Kangson. During his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed that the Kim regime continues to produce fissile material, but declined to say whether missile production is ongoing.
President Trump’s announcement that he is willing to meet with Iranian President Rouhani, just 8 days after tweeting a very hostile threat to Iran, suggests that he regards summit meetings as more important than substantive agreements.
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