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Aug 30, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Some footage from #NorthKorea's 40th anniversary parade in 1988. They used to do things a little differently back then. We're expecting a big 70th anniversary parade on September 9.
Hwasong-15, Hwasong-14, Hwasong-13, and Pukguksong-2 foreshadowed.
Well, well. Look at what just made the front page of Rodong Sinmun. (That rail car looks familiar.)

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Sep 26, 2018
Mahathir Mohammad at @CFR_org. First question on Chinese economic influence in #Malaysia. "Previous government borrowed too much money."
Says he explained to China that Najib was the problem and not Beijing. But now he's talking about payment pathways privileging Chinese SoEs over local contractors. "That is not good for us. Malaysian contractors have no role to play."
"Colonialism can take many forms. Countries can be subject to pressure through economic systems and that is a form of colonialism also." - Mahathir
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Sep 19, 2018
What's alluring about Yongbyon would be the limitation of tritium production, especially if verifiable. Of course, that's a far cry from what the 9/19 Pyongyang declaration suggests.
I'm maybe too cynical, but its inclusion in the declaration seems purely instrumental to incentivize the US to return to high-level talks/a second summit. It'll work in that sense.
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Sep 16, 2018
PC building day with a friend today. (His PC.)
About to try and POST outside the case.
POST took a bit due to a loose 24-pin motherboard power cable *and* a bad RAM stick. All good now and getting it into the case.
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Aug 30, 2018
April 4, 1993: Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin chat about the North Koreans — "Do you believe that the younger Kim is having any influence here?" (Kim Jong Il was the "younger" Kim at the time.)
July 10, 1993 — Clinton reflects on Japan and the NPT.
The way Clinton talks about sanctions/inducements/altering North Korean behavior here jumps out.
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Aug 29, 2018
Oh my: "A source also noted that North Korea believes Trump made the same promise to Kim Yong Chol, a top North Korean official close to Kim Jong Un, at the White House on June 1"
So, it all makes sense now. Without it being put in writing, Trump gave KJU in Singapore (and possibly KYC) assurances that he'd do an EoW declaration; his advisors disagree. The bill has come due & admin split on paying up.
One piece of the puzzle now is why NK hasn't made this part of its public messaging about the summit (i.e., as the US has kept trumpeting about what was "agreed to by Chairman Kim in Singapore," so too could DPRK trumpet what was "agreed to by President Trump in Singapore").
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Aug 29, 2018
Some more insight on the mysterious Kim Yong Chol letter: Pompeo’s NK visit cancelled because of demands for immediate end-of-war declaration, NIS says english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_e…
The Moon administration is also on board with an EoW declaration by the end of 2018, with "complete denuclearization" to follow; KYC wasn't out of phase with the inter-Korean understanding here.
Re-reading Trump's June 12 presser remarks, this bit sticks out to me—did he verbally give Kim assurances that the US would sign on to an EoW declaration/treaty? KYC might want to see the money now. (This is why it's good to write things down.)
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