Kim Plays Trump Again

Fresh off his bad hair day tour (post below), malignant narcissist and pathological liar Donald "Rump" Trump now has to face claims that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un took him for a long ride through the park with the meter running.

Non-proliferation experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies are claiming that North Korea is hiding bases from which ballistic missiles can be launched:

The bases, which are located in “mountainous terrain, often spread out within narrow dead-end valleys,” they write, could be used to deploy mobile missile launchers, which would be extremely difficult for other nations to track and stop before the missiles could be fired.

The analysts looked specifically at the Sakkanmol Missile Operating Base, located only 84 miles from Seoul. “As of November 2018, the base is active and being reasonably well-maintained by North Korean standards,” the report noted.

North Korea dramatically improved its missile technology with provocative test launches last year. Western experts eventually concluded that Pyongyang now has the ability to hit most of the United States, although it remains unclear if it could produce a nuclear weapon small enough to fit atop a missile."

After dangerously blustering that the U.S. would strike North Korea with "fire and fury" last year, the volatile Rump warmed to Kim after an approach by South Korean diplomats last spring, leading to a photo-op summit in Singapore that was a free diplomatic gift to Kim with nothing substantive given in return to Rump:

The day after the summit, Trump wrote on Twitter that there was “no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.” In public, he has largely kept this positive view of negotiations. “We’re in no rush,” he told reporters Wednesday, when asked about the prospect of a second summit with Kim, adding that the rockets and missiles “have stopped.”

The report is the latest evidence that while North Korea has indeed stopped its missile testing, it is far from dismantling its weapons facilities. Indeed, it appears to be adding to its stockpile: U.S. intelligence reports from the summer found that North Korea had begun producing new missiles at a factory, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged during Senate testimony that Pyongyang “continues to produce fissile material.”

The buffoon in the Oval Office was seeking an election year "win" at the expense of serious negotiations and goals. It now appears more and more that Kim knew he was dealing with a narcissistic moron who could be flattered into making concessions that would advance North Korea's nuclear program.

(photo: "Maybe if I look more like Kim, he'll be nice to me.")