(June 14, 2018 at 11:13 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(June 14, 2018 at 10:54 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: If Kim was on the level (doubtful) he is foolish for trusting any agreement with the US, especially one signed by Trump. Our track record in honoring such international agreements isn't that great. And we all know that Trump is a major liar about everything. But it might give hime some time tio further consolidate his position.
BTW, does anyone really believe that North Korea builds its own missiles from scratch?
The first stage of the North Korean missile that could actually hit the US uses Ukrainian liquid fueled rocket engines that were originally designed for Soviet ICBM of the same purpose. The upper stage can ultimately trace its design ancestry to the Scud medium range ballistic missile. The mobile launcher vehicle for that missile is based on a Chinese multi-axle heavy cross-country truck which was inturn developed from the chassis of china’s own mobile missile launcher.
The mobile launcher for shorter range missiles that could hit Guam and hawaii are actual Soviet mobile missile launchers allegedly demilitarized by Ukraine before being sold to North Korea and then remilitarized there.
So a whole crowd of people have a vested interest in ensuring that North Korea has a division of ICBMs. Why would Kim doublecross them and trust anything that lying Trump says?
