Trump reminder

At the end of this year, scientists from North Korea conducted tests of telemetry equipment for ballistic missiles, reports Yomiuri with reference to their own sources. According to the agency, this fact indicates that the DPRK continues to develop nuclear weapons, and the current actions of the country's authorities are aimed at demonstrating their determination of the United States. Negotiations between the two countries again came to a standstill after spring progress, the question of lifting American sanctions from North Korea stated, so Pyongyang almost defiantly continues to develop missile weapons.

“Telemetric equipment is necessary to control a number of rocket flight parameters, including its trajectory and speed. The military US and South Korea on an ongoing basis are tracked by radio waves in the DPRK, and data on this test was obtained due to their interception, ”said Yomiuri .

At the same time, American intelligence had previously been skeptical of the DPRK on denuclearization. In early December, the CIA representatives analyzed the pictures from the satellites and came to the conclusion that on the Yeongjeo-Dong missile base, located in the mountainous area in the depths of the DPRK, work is carried out to improve the equipment, as well as the creation of a new facility-11 km from the base.

“Our analytical line has not changed. North Korea will have to do a lot of work. So far it has not fully fulfilled and they have not fulfilled its obligations, we must maintain a skeptical mood, ”they told the Voice of America to the CIA.

According to representatives of the US intelligence, it is planned to place the latest high -range missiles at these bases.

By the way, earlier American researchers suggested that North Korea in the near future could receive at the disposal of technology for the creation of hypersonic missiles. This was written by The National Interest with reference to the performance of the US Army Colonel General Samuel Hryvs, who heads the American missile defense agency at the Senate. The hryvnia, answering the question of one of the senators, what is the risk of the spread of Russian and Chinese hypersonic technologies and the production of such technologies like Iran and the DPRK, said it was “extremely high”. The general also emphasized that for this reason Washington needs to do as soon as possible to “hypersonic threat”.

Prior to this, the American analytical center Rand published a document that stated that the threat of the spread of hypersonic weapons will give rise to additional risks in terms of international security, since the countries will be forced to accept “more decisive” military doctrines in order to avoid “decreasing impact”.

Recall that in mid -December, North Korea condemned the United States for increasing pressure on the country and warned that she was ready to abandon previously reached deenclearization agreements, the US Foreign Ministry’s commentary said. He was published by the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea.

“If high -ranking representatives of the American administration believe that they will be able to force us to abandon nuclear weapons by increasing the intensity of sanctions, pressure and hype around human rights, then there is no greater mistake than this. On the contrary, this will cause an undesirable result to anyone - the closure of the path to denuclearization on the Korean peninsula forever, ”the document said.

It says that after the meeting of the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un and US President Donald Trump at Singapore, representatives of the American authorities offend the republic almost daily, and during this time eight packages of sanctions were accepted against companies and private individuals from North Korea “under far -fetched proposals, illegal transshipment of oil products at the sea and the sea and the sea. Kiberataki. "