{"id":35641,"date":"2018-06-30T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35641"},"modified":"2018-06-30T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:35:31","slug":"theyre-trying-to-deceive-us-north-korea-adding-to-nuclear-stockpiles-satellite-photos-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35641","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They&#8217;re Trying To Deceive Us&#8221; &#8211; North Korea Adding To Nuclear Stockpiles, Satellite Photos Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-30\/theyre-trying-deceive-us-north-korea-adding-nuclear-stockpiles-satellite-photos\">&#8220;They&#8217;re Trying To Deceive Us&#8221; &#8211; North Korea Adding To Nuclear Stockpiles, Satellite Photos Reveal<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1116\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1116\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In what appears to be the latest indication that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&#8217;s talk about abandoning the country&#8217;s nuclear arsenal is disingenuous, US intelligence believes Kim has increased nuclear enrichment activities at several &#8220;secret&#8221; facilities in recent months, even after securing a major concession from the US and South Korea to cancel their upcoming joint military exercises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018.06.30northkorea_0.JPG?itok=exFt7WYW\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018.06.30northkorea_0.JPG?itok=exFt7WYW\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018.06.30northkorea_0.JPG\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2018.06.30northkorea_0.JPG?itok=exFt7WYW 1x\" alt=\"North\" width=\"500\" height=\"249\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"5a74e3d7-f0fd-4fa5-8814-a785b293d3c7\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/north-korea\/north-korea-has-increased-nuclear-production-secret-sites-say-u-n887926\">NBC News,<\/a> the intelligence assessment appears to contradict President Trump&#8217;s declaration that the North is &#8220;no longer a nuclear threat,&#8221; <em><strong>and analysts at the CIA and other intelligence agencies agree.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"Donald J. Trump (screen name: realDonaldTrump)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/874276197357596672\/kUuht00m_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/874276197357596672\/kUuht00m_bigger.jpg\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/874276197357596672\/kUuht00m_normal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-decoratedName\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-verifiedBadge\" data-scribe=\"element:verified_badge\"><b class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just landed &#8211; a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive\u00a0experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!<\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1006837823469735936\" data-datetime=\"2018-06-13T09:56:57+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: June 13, 2018 09:56:57 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-06-13T09:56:57+0000\">5:56 AM &#8211; Jun 13, 2018<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Instead, the intelligence community sees the North&#8217;s overtures as part of a scheme to extract every concession it can from the Trump administration, while clinging to nuclear weapons it believes are essential to survival. Notably, the report comes just two weeks after the historic Singapore summit that produced a vague agreement between the two sides to &#8220;work toward&#8221; denuclearization.<\/p>\n<p>While the North has stopped its nuclear tests, its enrichment activities have only accelerated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent months, even as the two sides engaged in diplomacy, North Korea was stepping up its production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, five U.S. officials say, citing the latest intelligence assessment. North Korea and the U.S. agreed at the summit to &#8220;work toward&#8221; denuclearization, but there is no specific deal. <strong>On Trump&#8217;s order, the U.S. military canceled training exercises on the Korean peninsula, a major concession to Kim.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re Trying To Deceive Us&#8221; &#8211; North Korea Adding To Nuclear Stockpiles, Satellite Photos Reveal In what appears to be the latest indication that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&#8217;s talk about abandoning the country&#8217;s nuclear arsenal is disingenuous, US intelligence believes Kim has increased nuclear enrichment activities at several &#8220;secret&#8221; facilities in recent months, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4102,135,7844,8312,2006,2583],"class_list":["post-35641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35642,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35641\/revisions\/35642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}