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North Korea has continued to upgrade its only known nuclear reactor used to fuel its weapons program, satellite imagery has shown, despite ongoing negotiations with the US and a pledge to denuclearise.
Infrastructure improvements at the Yongbyon nuclear plant are "continuing at a rapid pace", according to an analysis by monitoring group 38 North of commercial satellite images taken on 21 June.
The cooling system for the plutonium production reactor has been modified and at least two new non-industrial buildings have been built on the site, possibly for use by visiting officials. A new engineering office building has been completed and construction has continued on support facilities throughout the complex, according to a blog post written by Frank V Pabian, Joseph S Bermudez Jr and Jack Liu.
"Infrastructure improvements continue at Yongbyon," Jenny Town, managing editor of 38 North, wrote on Twitter. "Underscores reason why an actual deal is necessary, not just a statement of lofty goals."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/27/north-korea-nuclear-reactor-upgrades-summit-pledges
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @09:25PM (4 children)
I know I'm going off on a tangential rant here, and the statement is not even wrong because that is what Trump does. But the "meh, that's just what he does" thing really bugs me.
"He grabbed someone by the pussy, meh, that's just what he does",
"He wants to have an affair with his own daughter, meh, that's just he does",
"He got rid of a nuclear reduction treaty because Obama did it, meh, that's just what he does",
"He lies more than he tells the truth, meh, that's just what he does",
"He separates families for misdemeanor, jails the often very, very young children for an indefinite amounts of time with no plans to connect them their parents ever again, meh, that's just what he does",
"He says he could shoot a man in the street and his base would support him, meh, that's just what he does",
"He bans people from entering the country based on the their religion, meh, that's just what he does",
"His election staff had meetings with Russians in order to get dirt on his opponent in the Presidential election, commits fucking treason with one of the two most powerful competing nation states, meh, that's just what he does",
"The Republican party has moved from irresponsible, to treasonous, to outright evil, meh, that's just what they do."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @10:17PM (3 children)
Outright treason has never been proven. There's corrupt and collusion, but not outright treason that we know of.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:00PM (2 children)
From Trump Jr's own released emails he purposely had a meeting with a Russian Government attorney along with Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort to discuss dirt on Hillary Clinton. You can call it whatever you want. A U.S. Presidential Candidate's son and his campaign chairman who think they are having a meeting with a Russian Government attorney in order to get dirt on his opponent in a U.S. Presidential election?, I'm just going to go ahead and call that treason.*
*And, yeah, I know that any punishment, or the more likely lack thereof, won't be up to me. Go Team Republican!, because we certainly don't have any loyalty to country anymore.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:59AM (1 child)
So, if getting information *FROM* Russia is treason towards the USA, would giving information TO Russia then be treason against Russia?
(ignoring for a moment that treason requires some form of being owned by the country in question).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:21PM
If you were a Russian running a Russian Presidential Campaign and you were meeting with a U.S. Government attorney to get dirt on your opponent?, yep, I'd call that committing treason towards your country.