He is just the latest in a long list of bullshit perpuated by NK.
North Korea cannot be trusted to keep it's word. They will say whatever they need to to get what they want (recognition, food, whatever) and then they will go right back to their same own ways.
I had really hoped that perhaps Trump could pull it off, mainly because he is so unorthodox compared to those that have gone before, but it appears that that will not be so and NK will just continue on the way it has.
A list of important N. Korea shit since about 1992, it is not complete by any means. I created it for a post on another board last year to highlight efforts by Obama and Bush to deal with NK and decided to include it here.
A lot of the info comes from wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._missile_tests The rest is identified with an appropriate link:
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January 20, 1992: The two Koreas sign the South-North Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Under the declaration, both countries agree not to “test, manufacture, produce, receive, possess, store, deploy or use nuclear weapons” or to “possess nuclear reprocessing and uranium enrichment facilities.” They also agree to mutual inspections for verification.
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1993 North Korean missile test – (May 29/30, 1993) – Nodong
1998 North Korea fires off its first ballistic missile, the Unha-1 rocket, also known as the Taepodong-1 missile, from the launch site of Musudan-ri in North Hamgyong Province.
1999 North Korea agrees to a moratorium on long-range missile tests.[10]
2002 North Korea pledges to extend moratorium on missile tests beyond 2003.
2004 North Korea reaffirms moratorium.
2005 North Korea fires short-range missile into Sea of Japan.
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https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron
September 19, 2005: The participants in the six-party talks conclude a joint statement of principles to guide future negotiations.
According to the statement, North Korea commits “to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning, at an early date, to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to IAEA safeguards.” It also calls for the 1992 Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, which forbids the two Koreas from possessing uranium-enrichment and plutonium-separation facilities, to be “observed and implemented.” Washington affirms in the statement that it has no intention to attack or invade North Korea.
The statement commits the participants to achieving “the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner” and says that the parties agree “to take coordinated steps to implement” the agreed-upon obligations and rewards “in a phased manner in line with the principle of ‘commitment for commitment, action for action.’”
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July 5, 2006 2006 North Korean missile test – Taepodong-2 failed [9]
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The Six-Party Talks and President Obama's North Korea Policy | NTI The Six-Party Talks and President Obama's North Korea Policy | NTI
On January 13, 2009, North Korea's Foreign Ministry released a statement asserting that normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and North Korea should take precedence over denuclearization.[22] When U.S. Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton, during her confirmation hearing, stated that normalized relations will not be possible without complete and verifiable denuclearization,
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The Six-Party Talks and President Obama's North Korea Policy | NTI
on January 23, 2009, only days after the official swearing in of President Obama, North Korea's dear leader Kim Jong-il pledged his country's commitment to the "denuclearization of the Korean peninsula" during a meeting with Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee
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Albright Meets N. Korean '''Great Leader''' - ABC News Albright Meets N. Korean 'Great Leader' - ABC News
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held historic talks with North Korea’s Kim Jong Il today and said Washington was taking a measured approach to rapprochement with the secretive communist state.
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While no accords are expected to be signed during her two-day trip, Albright will recommend for or against a visit by Clinton, who could then seal some deals, a senior U.S. official said.
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Albright wants to judge how serious Kim Jong Il really is about leading his country out of its long isolation and improving relations with Washington and U.S. allies in East Asia, the official told reporters during the long flight from Washington.
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July 4, 2009 2009 North Korean missile test
May 18–20, 2013 2013 North Korean missile tests (part of 2013 Korean crisis)
2013 Korean Crisis. Testing of Atomic bombs, Gearing up plutonium production, all sorts of shit.
March 2014 2014 North Korean missile tests including Nodong, success
May 9, 2015 North Korea claims to launch a missile from a submarine
April 9, 2016 Test of engine designed for an intercontinental ballistic missile
August 24, 2016 North Korea claims to launch a Pukkuksong-1[16] missile capable of striking the United States.[17] The missile is a Submarine-launched ballistic missile.[1
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