{"id":44342,"date":"2019-03-09T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44342"},"modified":"2019-03-09T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:34:37","slug":"intelligence-contractors-make-new-attempt-to-provoke-tensions-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44342","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Contractors Make New Attempt To Provoke Tensions With North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2019\/03\/intelligence-contractors-make-new-attempt-to-provoke-tensions-with-north-korea\/\">Intelligence Contractors Make New Attempt To Provoke Tensions With North Korea<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Commercial-Satellite-Imagery_3-e1552097290523.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the second, but no less ludicrous, attempt in one week to sway the opinion of the public and President Donald Trump against the concept of denuclearization and peaceful dialogue with North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A March 8, 2019 report from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/Ybi7J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Public Radio<\/a>&nbsp;(NPR) follows another by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2019\/03\/the-media-is-lying-about-construction-at-sohae-launch-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC News<\/a>&nbsp;with sensational and misleading claims that satellite imagery released by private corporations with contractual ties to government defense and intelligence agencies show imminent preparations by the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to engage in missile testing or the launch of a satellite from their facilities in Sanumdong, North Korea. An examination of the photos provided shows absolutely no indication of such activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I. Satellite Footage Of Sanumdong Facility Shows No Sign Of Imminent Launch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Images provided to NPR by private contractor DigitalGlobe consist of two low resolution images, one of a building in the Sanumdong complex and the other of a train sitting along a rail line. In neither photo is there any discernible amount of unusual activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-08-at-3.49.14-PM.png?resize=532%2C316&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15436\"\/><figcaption>Credit: Image \u00a92019 DigitalGlobe, Inc. Graphic: Alyson Hurt\/NPR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first image of a \u201cproduction hall\u201d bears a striking resemblance to a similar photo run by the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/hD6bs\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0in July 2018 where unnamed intelligence officials claimed that North Korea was building one or possibly two liquid fueled ICBMs which appear to have never materialized or been used in any launch. The claims came one month after President Trump met with Chairman Kim Jong Un in Singapore for a historic summit between the United States and the DPRK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence Contractors Make New Attempt To Provoke Tensions With North Korea It\u2019s the second, but no less ludicrous, attempt in one week to sway the opinion of the public and President Donald Trump against the concept of denuclearization and peaceful dialogue with North Korea. A March 8, 2019 report from&nbsp;National Public Radio&nbsp;(NPR) follows another by&nbsp;NBC [&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":[15091,24597,2190,3209,2006,827,15465],"class_list":["post-44342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-disobedient-media","tag-intelligence-contractors","tag-national-public-radio","tag-nbc","tag-north-korea","tag-united-states","tag-william-craddick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44342","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=44342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44343,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44342\/revisions\/44343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}