by JDHURF » Mon Jul 02, 2018 2:22 am
If true it would not be the least shocking indeed. I recommend significant skepticism about "secret" intelligence reports written by the CIA and other related agencies. The War Department (Defense Department) has a very long history of fabricating fraudulent "evidence" in an effort to support military aggression. The whole of the Middle East is a testament to this, as the fraudulent evidence used to support the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq has resulted in catastrophes spread globally.
The classified assessments are classified and the only information about them are the few claims quoted in the corporate media by anonymous analysts asserted without any evidence whatsoever. 38 North has compiled a set of eight commercial satellite images purporting to evidence infrastructure improvements at Yongbyon Nuclear Research Facility. While 38 North has at least one nuclear scientist, the images are not too terribly definitive. The image of a "Newly erected blue-roofed building 30m x 15m" is borderline laughable. I don't know how convincing the image of allegedly new roof stains from cooling unit operations at a uranium enrichment plant are, but I equivalently don't see any evidence that North Korea has completely stopped it's nuclear program.
The fact that the specific details of the agreement have not been made public requires skepticism about alleged continued uranium enrichment.
I'm always disgusted with discussions in the West about nuclear programs as nonproliferation has been defeated time and time again by the United States government itself. It seems absolutely f**k ludicrous that the United States demands denuclearization of others states at the point of nuclear warheads. "Get rid of your nuclear weapons are we'll annihilate you with ours." That's not diplomacy, that's mafiaism.