"If North Korea is denuclearizing," it asked, "Why is it expanding a nuclear research center?" The piece warned that North Korea "Continues to make improvements to a major nuclear facility, raising questions about President Donald Trump's claim that Kim Jong Un has agreed to disarm, independent experts tell NBC News.".
The three analysts who had written that the satellite images "Indicated that improvements to the infrastructure at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center are continuing at a rapid pace" also cautioned that this work "Should not be seen as having any relationship to North Korea's pledge to denuclearize."
Determined to salvage its political line on the Trump-Kim talks, NBC News turned to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, who has insisted all along that North Korea won't give up its nuclear weapons.
"The North Koreans never offered to give up their nuclear weapons. Never. Not once." Lewis had apparently forgotten that the October 2005 Six Party joint statement included language that the DPRK had "Committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons."
"The expansion of production infrastructure for North Korea's solid missile infrastructure probably suggests that Kim Jong Un does not intend to abandon his nuclear and missile programs."
The stories of how North Korea is now violating an imaginary pledge by Kim to Trump in Singapore are even more outrageous, because big media had previously peddled the opposite line: that Kim at the Singapore Summit made no firm commitment to give up his nuclear weapons and that the "Agreement" in Singapore was the weakest of any thus far.
Big media have since topped that feat of journalistic legerdemain by claiming that North Korea has demonstrated bad faith by failing to halt all nuclear and missile-related activities.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-medias-brazen-dishonesty-about-north-korean-nuclear-violations/
The three analysts who had written that the satellite images "Indicated that improvements to the infrastructure at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center are continuing at a rapid pace" also cautioned that this work "Should not be seen as having any relationship to North Korea's pledge to denuclearize."
Determined to salvage its political line on the Trump-Kim talks, NBC News turned to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, who has insisted all along that North Korea won't give up its nuclear weapons.
"The North Koreans never offered to give up their nuclear weapons. Never. Not once." Lewis had apparently forgotten that the October 2005 Six Party joint statement included language that the DPRK had "Committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons."
"The expansion of production infrastructure for North Korea's solid missile infrastructure probably suggests that Kim Jong Un does not intend to abandon his nuclear and missile programs."
The stories of how North Korea is now violating an imaginary pledge by Kim to Trump in Singapore are even more outrageous, because big media had previously peddled the opposite line: that Kim at the Singapore Summit made no firm commitment to give up his nuclear weapons and that the "Agreement" in Singapore was the weakest of any thus far.
Big media have since topped that feat of journalistic legerdemain by claiming that North Korea has demonstrated bad faith by failing to halt all nuclear and missile-related activities.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-medias-brazen-dishonesty-about-north-korean-nuclear-violations/
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