North Korea is working to conceal its nuclear weapons, taking measures like building structures to conceal warhead storage facilities and moving the weapons from place to place to make them harder to track, according to a Monday NBC News report.
U.S. intelligence reportedly estimates that the North Koreans are on track to create five to eight new weapons this year, figures apace with the average of six weapons a year that they were constructing before the Trump-Kim summit.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, already deeply doubtful that inroads could be made with the North Koreans, has become disillusioned with the process when faced with the evidence, per NBC.
President Donald Trump, on the other hand, continues to tweet messages like “we will get it done together!” and “we will prove everyone wrong!” displaying his affection for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his desire to keep foreign policy messaging positive before the midterms.
Praise Kim while ignoring the nukes and starting a feud with Canada.
Welcome to America.
Then there’s this announcement for later today;
As everyone here knows Trump’s only reality are the staged public relations events where he is the center of attention (which means any public event he attends - he always believes he is the center of attention).
Thus the Singapore “Summit” with all the empty glitz proves to Trump what a great and brilliant statesman he is, greater than Lincoln and FDR and he will remain convinced that his brilliant deal making and the amazing force of his personality has “fixed” the North Korean nuclear weapon problem (if Pompeo and his other low energy incompetent possibly disloyal staff do not screw it all up).
If a a violently repressive authoritarian tells him something, he believes it.
Once a fool, always a fool.
Is Trump’s info-bubble nuclear-hardened?