Obama Admin knew of NK's miniaturized nukes in 2013, downplayed significance

[TemplarKormac]

Well, well, who are we going to blame this on? Russia?

Tuesday's bombshell Washington Post story that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be used as warheads for missiles – possibly ICBMs – left out a crucial fact: DIA actually concluded this in 2013. The Post also failed to mention that the Obama administration tried to downplay and discredit this report at the time.

During an April 11, 2013, House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., inadvertently revealed several unclassified sentences from a DIA report that said DIA had determined with “moderate confidence” that North Korea has the capability to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be launched with a ballistic missile.

The Director of National Intelligence and Obama officials subsequently tried to dismiss Lamborn’s disclosure by claiming the DIA assessment was an outlier that did not reflect the views of the rest of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Obama administration knew about North Korea's miniaturized nukes

 

[toobfreak]

Democrats are can-kickers, not problem-solvers. When you just kick the can and speak well, their base is happiest and you run less of a risk of something going wrong you can't blame on the GOP.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Saw this earlier. Does not surprise me at all.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Saw this earlier. Does not surprise me at all.

Pretty cowardly if you ask me.

 

[Siete]

surprise !

North Korea made its nuclear break out under George W. Bush – not under Bill Clinton and not under Barack Obama. A key part of that backstory is that over the course of the late 90s the US negotiated a series of agreements called the Agreed Framework which shuttered the North Koreans nuclear weapons program in exchange for a combination of commitments and aid.

 

[Siete]

2002
January 29 - US President George W. Bush labels North Korea, Iran and Iraq an "axis of evil" in his State of the Union address. "By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger," he says.
October - The Bush Administration reveals that North Korea has admitted operating a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of the 1994 agreement.
2003
January 10 - North Korea withdraws from the NPT.
February - The United States confirms North Korea has reactivated a five-megawatt nuclear reactor at its Yongbyon facility, capable of producing plutonium for weapons.
April - Declares it has nuclear weapons.
2005
North Korea tentatively agrees to give up its entire nuclear program, including weapons. In exchange, the United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea say they will provide energy assistance to North Korea, as well as promote economic cooperation.
2006
July - After North Korea test fires long range missiles, the UN Security Council passes a resolution demanding that North Korea suspend the program.
October - North Korea claims to have successfully tested its first nuclear weapon. The test prompts the UN Security Council to impose a broad array of sanctions.
2007
February 13 - North Korea agrees to close its main nuclear reactor in exchange for an aid package worth $400 million.
September 30 - At six-party talks in Beijing, North Korea signs an agreement stating it will begin disabling its nuclear weapons facilities.
December 31 - North Korea misses the deadline to disable its weapons facilities by the end of the year.
2008
June 27 - North Korea destroys a water cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear facility.
October 11 - North Korea is removed from the US list of states that sponsor terrorism.
December - Six-party talks are held in Beijing. The talks break down over North Korea's refusal to allow international inspectors unfettered access to suspected nuclear sites.

Well, well, who are we going to blame this on? Russia?

Tuesday's bombshell Washington Post story that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be used as warheads for missiles – possibly ICBMs – left out a crucial fact: DIA actually concluded this in 2013. The Post also failed to mention that the Obama administration tried to downplay and discredit this report at the time.

During an April 11, 2013, House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., inadvertently revealed several unclassified sentences from a DIA report that said DIA had determined with “moderate confidence” that North Korea has the capability to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be launched with a ballistic missile.

The Director of National Intelligence and Obama officials subsequently tried to dismiss Lamborn’s disclosure by claiming the DIA assessment was an outlier that did not reflect the views of the rest of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Obama administration knew about North Korea's miniaturized nukes

gee thanks Obama.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Democrats are can-kickers, not problem-solvers. When you just kick the can and speak well, their base is happiest and you run less of a risk of something going wrong you can't blame on the GOP.

yeah, mon. like with healthcare. LOL.

 

[The Original Tree]

There is not one problem Obama was not willing to run from or kick the can down the road.
He even did that with Obamacare making the BILL DUE, after he left office.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Interesting. I think it explains a few important points.

This is why when Obama left office he told Trump that N Korea was the greatest threat to America. Basically he was protecting his own behind from any future fallout, he can say "hey, I let the next administration know". Meanwhile, he did not want to upset China by actually addressing the North Korea problem while he was in power, instead, catering to his lobbyist friends who were shipping jobs out to China.

Imagine how his debt record would have looked if he had been the one who actually addressed this massive threat?

 

[easyt65]

surprise !
North Korea made its nuclear break out under George W. Bush – not under Bill Clinton and not under Barack Obama.

As usual, you are full of shit.

"For all this, thank Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. North Korea couldn’t have done it without their gullibility.

Back in 1994, President Clinton prepared to confront North Korea over CIA reports it had built nuclear warheads and its subsequent threats to engulf Japan and South Korea in “a sea of fire.”

Enter self-appointed peacemaker Carter: The ex-prez scurried off to Pyongyang and negotiated a sellout deal that gave North Korea two new reactors and $5 billion in aid in return for a promise to quit seeking nukes.

Clinton embraced this appeasement as achieving “an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula” — with compliance verified by international inspectors. Carter wound up winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his dubious efforts.

But in 2002, the North Koreans ’fessed up: They’d begun violating the accord on Day One. Four years later, Pyongyang detonated its first nuke.

Now, the Obama administration (long content to kick the North Korea can down the road) says it will never “accept” a nuclear North Korea. Funny: The president said the same thing about Iran, then cut a deal that guarantees the ayatollahs go atomic."


Barry's UN-Constitutional Treaty with Iran resulted in Iran getting an a$$-load of money and the previously banned opportunity to swap technology with North Korea - North Korea got the missile technology they needed to reach the US, and Iran got much needed nuke data / info.

Way to go, Barry!


So Moe, Larry, and Curly helped make this nations nuclear capable and able to strike the US...

 

[TemplarKormac]

North Korea made its nuclear break out under George W. Bush – not under Bill Clinton and not under Barack Obama

So, you think they simply waited for Bush to become president to try it?

Really?

 

[Timmy]

NK was under control . Trump can't handle it because he is just like Kim . Two over their heads wanna be tough guys .

 

[Thinker101]

NK was under control . Trump can't handle it because he is just like Kim . Two over their heads wanna be tough guys .

So, at what point of time was NK under control.

 

[whitehall]

The worst part is that the media knew that Obama knew about N.K.'s threat and they ignored it for eight freaking years and half a dozen nuclear explosions. All of a sudden N.K. becomes a threat seven months into a republican administration.

 

[Slash]

North Korea made its nuclear break out under George W. Bush – not under Bill Clinton and not under Barack Obama

So, you think they simply waited for Bush to become president to try it?

Really?

Yeah pretty much. That's when they kicked out the inspectors and started in earnest. That's what they said was the diriving reason. They react to hard talk and threats. Once the US called them an "axis of evil" and we walked away from the treaty and threatened to stop sending them oil, things took off.

Now I understand us taking those stances. Personally I'd prefer we just let the UN or S. Korea lead on this one. I've got no dog in that fight so why keep provoking it. But I see again we still want to be the world police.

 

[Timmy]

NK was under control . Trump can't handle it because he is just like Kim . Two over their heads wanna be tough guys .

So, at what point of time was NK under control.

Well they weren't exactly chucking missles around every week and sendning Americans back in comas until Kim saw Dopey Don was in charge .

 

[Slash]

The worst part is that the media knew that Obama knew about N.K.'s threat and they ignored it for eight freaking years and half a dozen nuclear explosions. All of a sudden N.K. becomes a threat seven months into a republican administration.

7 months? End of 2006 was when they tested their first bomb. Well into GWB's 2nd term. End of 2002 was the first talks of the possibility that N. Korea was working on a secret nuclear facility. December of that year was the first time the US talked about inspecting facilities for it.

 

[Thinker101]

NK was under control . Trump can't handle it because he is just like Kim . Two over their heads wanna be tough guys .

So, at what point of time was NK under control.

Well they weren't exactly chucking missles around every week and sendning Americans back in comas until Kim saw Dopey Don was in charge .

Yup, NK must be extremely bright, developing nukes in only 6 months. And threating the U.S., really bright.

 

[Timmy]

NK was under control . Trump can't handle it because he is just like Kim . Two over their heads wanna be tough guys .

So, at what point of time was NK under control.

Well they weren't exactly chucking missles around every week and sendning Americans back in comas until Kim saw Dopey Don was in charge .

Yup, NK must be extremely bright, developing nukes in only 6 months. And threating the U.S., really bright.

You are proving my point . NK has been NK for a long time now . Suddenly we are talking war!? Why ?!

 

[Thinker101]

NK was under control . Trump can't handle it because he is just like Kim . Two over their heads wanna be tough guys .

So, at what point of time was NK under control.

Well they weren't exactly chucking missles around every week and sendning Americans back in comas until Kim saw Dopey Don was in charge .

Yup, NK must be extremely bright, developing nukes in only 6 months. And threating the U.S., really bright.

You are proving my point . NK has been NK for a long time now . Suddenly we are talking war!? Why ?!

Hardly proving your point. I'm sure it took years for them to develop the weapons. As far as talking war, guess we now have a president that won't be doing any butt kissing and paying them off.