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North Korea Making 'Rapid' Upgrades to Nuclear Reactor Despite Summit Pledges

posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 27 2018, @06:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the actions-not-words dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:22PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:22PM (#699922) Journal

    Basically, we are lucky that only thing standing between Obama and ever more draconian right wing policy, was right wing racism. Don't you think it is sad that we need racism to prevent Democrats from being insanely evil? Don't you think it nuts that the Democrat reaction to Trump is to be excessive warmongers and hawks (*)? Dems give him more military budget than he asks for, hound him whenever he isn't bombing Syria enough, loathe him for attempting to reduce tensions with NK, want to get into war with Russia.

    Let's be clear, the GOP sucks, but it is also true that Democrats are no better than the GOP in any way that matters. The Dems do excel at the marketing themselves as progressive peaceniks who care, but that's basically like a Lucky Strike ad from the 50s -- toasted and healthy. Fuck advertising. Fuck DNC.

    (*) Except the entirety of the Obama administration demonstrated that really, Democrats ARE warmongering hawks.

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