Article bore the sensational headline, "In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception." In a breathless tone, the writers, David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, declared that the satellite images "Suggest that North Korea has been engaging in a great deception," because it had offered to dismantle a major launching site while "Continuing to make improvements at more than a dozen others that would bolster launches of conventional and nuclear warheads."
If such improvements had been made during the U.S.-North Korean exchanges, they have might well merit official and public attention-if they have given North Korea new capabilities for threatening the United States or its allies, as Sanger and Broad suggested.
Further obfuscating the issue, Sanger and Broad argued that the failure of North Korea to "Acknowledge" those missile bases "Contradicts Mr. Trump's assertion that his landmark diplomacy is leading to the eliminating of a nuclear and missile program that the North had warned could devastate the United States." That mysterious formulation seems to imply--absurdly-that North Korea had somehow welshed on an obligation to fully inform the United States of its missile assets in advance of a negotiated agreement on the sequence and timing of the steps both sides would need to take to conclude an denuclearization agreement.
In any case it is completely unrealistic to expect North Korea to end all of its ballistic missile programs.
As Vipin Narang of MIT observed to CNN, "Many of these are short-range conventional missiles which North Korea has never said were on the table." North Korea cannot give them up without losing completely its ability to deter outside attack, since it does not have a modern air force with the necessary capability for deterrence.
The "Peace agreement" to which Cha refers would be a declaration by the United States, North Korea and possibly China that the Korean War, which has technically only had an armistice but not formally ended, is indeed over.
In August, is that it would force the United States to begin "Talking about how many American troops are needed in South Korea." Then it would then have to acknowledge that the U.S. troop presence in South Korea is not only to deter North Korea but "Helps the United States maintain a military footprint in Asia and a grand strategy of American hegemony".
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/north-korea-deception-nyt-malpractice-or-laziness/
If such improvements had been made during the U.S.-North Korean exchanges, they have might well merit official and public attention-if they have given North Korea new capabilities for threatening the United States or its allies, as Sanger and Broad suggested.
Further obfuscating the issue, Sanger and Broad argued that the failure of North Korea to "Acknowledge" those missile bases "Contradicts Mr. Trump's assertion that his landmark diplomacy is leading to the eliminating of a nuclear and missile program that the North had warned could devastate the United States." That mysterious formulation seems to imply--absurdly-that North Korea had somehow welshed on an obligation to fully inform the United States of its missile assets in advance of a negotiated agreement on the sequence and timing of the steps both sides would need to take to conclude an denuclearization agreement.
In any case it is completely unrealistic to expect North Korea to end all of its ballistic missile programs.
As Vipin Narang of MIT observed to CNN, "Many of these are short-range conventional missiles which North Korea has never said were on the table." North Korea cannot give them up without losing completely its ability to deter outside attack, since it does not have a modern air force with the necessary capability for deterrence.
The "Peace agreement" to which Cha refers would be a declaration by the United States, North Korea and possibly China that the Korean War, which has technically only had an armistice but not formally ended, is indeed over.
In August, is that it would force the United States to begin "Talking about how many American troops are needed in South Korea." Then it would then have to acknowledge that the U.S. troop presence in South Korea is not only to deter North Korea but "Helps the United States maintain a military footprint in Asia and a grand strategy of American hegemony".
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/north-korea-deception-nyt-malpractice-or-laziness/
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