Please break out your minuscule violins for Trump officials who hate the fact that “unofficial” reports of North Korea’s missile work are showing up in their newspapers :

Senior U.S. officials involved in the negotiations with North Korea can just contain their dislike for the unofficial analysis, viewing it as exceedingly pessimistic and potentially disruptive to their efforts.

“The tendency to reach these sounds conclusions is, in my view, a little hasty, ” Stephen Biegun, the special U.S. emissary for North Korea, said at a Washington conference Monday….John Bolton, Trump’s national insurance advisor, similarly rejected recent overhead images proving rail cars and other activity at Sanumdong, a facility near Pyongyang where North Korea has assembled some of its intercontinental cruise missile and satellite-launching rockets.

….No one shows the specialists are imperiling national defence. But proof that Kim’s government is continuing its rocket and nuclear weapon increase increases questions about whether Trump is engaged in a vain diplomatic initiative….U.S. intelligence agencies that study the reclusive North Korean authority implementation communication intercepts, defector reports, reconnaissance flights and other sources. Intelligent spy satellites move classified idols said to be substantially more detailed than those publicly held. That enables them to keep surveillance on dozens of places where Kim’s government is believed to be working on weapons or long-range rocket components.

Well boo hoo. Trump’s preposterous negotiations with North koreans are about as public as anything could potentially be. Hell, Henry VIII would be jealous of Trump’s prowess at personal advertising. So of course Trump doesn’t want to see evidence on his Tv registering just how lunatic his love affair with Kim Jong Un is. That’s why analysis from all these contemptuous intellect officials is remain far, far away from public consider. It’s because it flusters the president , not because it’s wrong or because it jeopardizes national security.

Look, we all know that even if intelligence agencies are doing their best to add honest analysis, Trump regularly refuses to listen to them. But he does listen to Fox& Friends every morning. So if it wishes to pressure him to face reality, your only hope is to plaster it all over the media, which Trump does listen to. Quit bellyaching.

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