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posted by martyb on Sunday August 05 2018, @12:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the words-are-cheap dept.

North Korea continuing nuclear programme - UN report

North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programmes, violating UN sanctions, a report commissioned by the UN Security Council says. It also says Pyongyang has resorted to a "massive increase" of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil products and has been trying to sell weapons abroad.

The confidential report by a panel of independent experts was submitted to the UN Security Council on Friday. North Korea has so far not commented on the document's findings.

Last week, US officials said Pyongyang appeared to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with US President Donald Trump's administration and pledges to denuclearise. Unnamed US officials told the Washington Post that spy satellites had spotted continuing activity at a site that has produced ballistic missiles.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @01:35AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @01:35AM (#717690)

    And yet somehow he's managed to blunder his way to making more progress on the issue since taking office than a half century of Presidents before him managed to do, combined.

    What progress has he actually made? He elevated Kim by having a summit, he's said nice things about Kim, he said Kim sent him a nice letter, and NK is still developing nuclear weapons. If that is what's you consider to be progress, then the half century of Presidents were setting the bar way too high.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday August 06 2018, @03:35AM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Monday August 06 2018, @03:35AM (#717728) Journal
    "Elevated?" That's a bullshit talking point that never made any sense at all. This bizarre notion that you can simply ignore the head of a state and he will shrink and die of embarrassment like a schoolgirl getting snubbed by the cool crowd is unrealistic. It's been done over and over and over again, in the case of Korea and Kims this has been done for generations, if anything THAT 'elevates' them in a way that attending a conference is never going to do.

    Yet the war party keeps pushing this line that makes no sense to begin with, that's never worked, and you keep eating it right up. Shame on you.
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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @09:42AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @09:42AM (#717776)

      Not "shrink and die", simply remain illegitimate. You seem to be trying really hard to legitimize the President's actions here, yet cannot backup your claim of "progress" with any actual progress.

      Basically, Trump blew his load like a virgin at a brothel, and all he got was a nice card that says "Please come again."

      • (Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @10:18AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @10:18AM (#717783)

        Illegitimate to whom? The millions of people who are his subjects? The generals who do his bidding? The tens of millions of citizens of nations in the potential firing line?

        If you want bloody war then you belittle and dehumanise the enemy, so that your subjects see it as good and right that they should all die. But if you want peace you must treat them with respect and dignity, so that their subjects see it as good and right that the nations engage in a diplomatic solution.

        As brash, careless and inconsistent as Trump has been in his statements in public fora, he has been consistent in his desire for direct dialogue with other national leaders.

      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday August 06 2018, @12:45PM

        by Arik (4543) on Monday August 06 2018, @12:45PM (#717805) Journal
        You've simply rephrased one bit of nonsense into a slightly different bit of nonsense.

        Attending the conference in no way legitimized anyone - they are all just as legitimate, or not, as they were beforehand.

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