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"A new U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that North Korea does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon, three U.S. officials told NBC News — a finding that conflicts with recent statements by President Donald Trump that Pyongyang intends to do so in the future.
President Trump is continuing to pursue a nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even though the CIA analysis, which is consistent with other expert opinion, casts doubt on the viability of Trump's stated goal for the negotiations, the elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons stockpile.
"Everybody knows they are not going to denuclearize," said one intelligence official who read the report, which was circulated earlier this month, days before Trump canceled the originally scheduled summit.
In an odd twist, a list of potential concessions by North Korea in the CIA analysis included the possibility that Kim Jong Un may consider offering to open a Western hamburger franchise in Pyongyang as a show of goodwill, according to three national security officials."
The CIA missed predicting the collapse of the Soviet Union, missed Iraq's nuclear arms program before the first Gulf War and then there is the issue of the intelligence before the second Gulf War.
I'm not necessarily criticizing them, it's a difficult job. their assessments sometimes slam it out of the park and sometimes not. That's the nature of the beast and in this case you have a tightly closed society where hard intelligence is going to be difficult to come by.
I'm curious to how a pre-summit public commentary by an alphabet agency isn't un-elected and un-requested interference in high level foreign affairs that we democratically elected someone else to take care of?
How will NK react to such a public comment? How will it change the trajectory of talks, even if slightly?
What is the exact purpose of a public release of his opinion? Why wouldn't it stay classified if the purpose wasn't to influence the outcome?
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I'm curious to how a pre-summit public commentary by an alphabet agency isn't un-elected and un-requested interference in high level foreign affairs that we democratically elected someone else to take care of?
How will NK react to such a public comment? How will it change the trajectory of talks, even if slightly?
What is the exact purpose of a public release of his opinion? Why wouldn't it stay classified if the purpose wasn't to influence the outcome?
Good, bad, or indifferent, that's simply not true.
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