I was surprised to hear that North Korea was in the process of taking down the bulk of its anti-America propaganda. Word had it the state-controlled media was even softening its anti-America nonsense on the airwaves, which is HUGE. After all, that’s one of their brainwashing tools. Heck, NK even canceled its annual anti-US rally.
Still, and we’ve said it from the beginning, we must remain cautiously optimistic. Kim Jong-un is a dictator. He’s not suddenly changing his ways. He’s a horrific human being in every way imaginable. He starves and tortures his people. Speaking of, he ordered an officer killed by a firing squad for giving troops extra food.
Lieutenant General Hyon Ju-song was pumped pull of 90 rounds fired by nine military death-row convicts who made up the firing squad.
He was put to death after being found guilty of charges of abusing authority, profiting the enemy and engaging in anti-Party acts.
Reports suggest he was shot at the firing range of the Kang Kon Military Academy located in the Sunan District of the capital Pyongyang.
Online newspaper NK Daily said his ‘crime’ had been to redistribute extra supplies to his men at a satellite launching station in April.
That’s not Kim’s only shady action lately. Word has it North Korea is making “numerous improvements” to one of its nuclear sites, which is some freaking BULL, because what happened to the talk he had with Trump? You know– about moving toward a denuclearized peninsula? I know everything they did was purely symbolic, but still.
North Korea is upgrading its only known nuclear research facility, satellite imagery has shown, despite ongoing negotiations with multiple world leaders and a pledge to abandon its weapons program.
The satellite photos, obtained by North Korea analysis outlet 38 North, indicate that the isolated regime is making numerous improvements to its Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center “at a rapid pace.”
However, 38 North said this “should not be seen as having any relationship to the #DPRK’s pledge to denuclearize.”
Commercial satellite imagery from June 21 indicates that improvements to the infrastructure at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center are continuing at a rapid pace. https://t.co/by1wVsojAZ
— 38 North (@38NorthNK) June 26, 2018
38 North analysts also say “Continued work at the Yongbyon facility should not be seen as having any relationship to the #DPRK‘s pledge to denuclearize. The North’s nuclear cadre can be expected to proceed with business as usual until specific orders are issued from Pyongyang.”
— 38 North (@38NorthNK) June 26, 2018
Take that as you will.
The fact remains. Kim Jong-un is a little s**t who cannot be trusted. I think Trump knows that. I’m just waiting to see if we’ll have more “Rocket Man” tweets anytime soon.