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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2018 ‘No longer a nuclear threat’ from North Korea, Trump says By ANNE FLAHERTY and JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — Pres- ident Donald Trump declared today there was “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea,” a dubious claim fol- lowing his summit with leader Kim Jong Un that produced no guarantees on how or when Pyongyang would disarm. Tempering Trump’s very upbeat assessment, his top dip- lomat, Mike Pompeo, cau- tioned that the U.S. would resume “war games” with close ally South Korea if the North stops negotiating in good faith. The president had announced a halt in the drills after his meet- ing with Kim on Tuesday. The summit in Singapore, which marked a major reduc- tion in tensions, yielded a joint statement that contained a promise to work toward a denuclearized Korean Penin- sula, but it lacked details. That didn’t stop the president from talking up the outcome of what was the first meeting between a U.S. and North Korean leader in six decades of hostility. The Korean War ended in 1953 without a peace treaty, leaving the two sides in a technical state of war. “Just landed — a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” Trump tweeted early today. “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!” Pompeo, who flew to Seoul to brief South Korean leaders on the summit, said the U.S. wants North Korea to take “major” nuclear disarmament steps within the next two years — before the end of Trump’s first term in 2021. He said the North Korean leader understands that “there will be in-depth verifica- tion” of nuclear commitments in any deal with the U.S. While Trump was facing questions at home and among allies about whether he gave away too much in return for far too little at the summit, North Korean state media heralded claims of a victorious meeting with the U.S. president; pho- tos of Kim standing side-by- side with Trump on the world stage were splashed across newspapers. Trump’s own chest-thump- ing tweet seemed reminiscent of the “Mission Accomplished” banner flown behind President George W. Bush in 2003 when he spoke aboard a Navy ship following the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The words came back to haunt the administration, as the war dragged on throughout Bush’s presidency. Trump’s claim that North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat is questionable consider- ing Pyongyang’s significant weapons arsenal. Independent experts say the North could have enough fissile material for anywhere between about a dozen and 60 nuclear bombs. Last year it tested long- range missiles that could reach the U.S. mainland, although it remains unclear if it has mas- tered the technology to deliver a nuclear warhead that could re-enter the atmosphere and hit its target. “Before taking office peo- ple were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea,” Trump tweeted. “Pres- ident (Barack) Obama said that North Korea was our big- gest and most dangerous prob- lem. No longer — sleep well tonight!” When asked whether Trump was jumping the gun by declar- ing victory, White House coun- selor Kellyanne Conway told reporters: “This president wants North Korea to com- pletely denuclearize so obvi- ously that has to be complete, verifiable and irreversible.” Nelson: ‘If you were a friend of his, you were a friend for life’ Continued from Page 1A Nelson graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in Con- necticut in 1953. A year later, he married his wife, Joyce. He would go on to make a lot of decisions in the next few decades, but he often told friends that his proposal to Joyce was his best one. The rear admiral held a number of top positions in the Coast Guard that took him to Washington, D.C., Massachu- setts, Newfoundland, Loui- siana, Washington state and North Carolina. In each place, he would find an organization where he could volunteer. “He was a very outgoing and intelligent man,” Joyce Nelson said. “He always vol- Edward Nelson Jr. unteered for other things. It’s a way of getting to know the local people.” Nelson was a commander at Air Station Astoria from 1971 to 1974. By the time he retired as the commander of the 17th District, which moni- tors the entire Alaska region, he had become the Coast Guard’s Ancient Albatross — the lon- gest-serving active duty aviator. Peter Troedsson, now the Albany city manager, spent 30 years in the Coast Guard and was the commander in Asto- ria from 2006 to 2009. During Troedsson’s command, Nelson would act as a mentor both to him and junior officers. Though his career started as Nelson’s was ending, Troeds- son felt a kinship “He was one of those folks that is interested in every aspect of the operation,” Troedsson said. “He maintained avid inter- est in everything the stations he commanded did.” When he did retire, the Nel- sons settled in Astoria. During the years he spent in the area, he enjoyed the city’s Scandinavian influence — similar to that of his hometown in Worcester, Massa- Seaside: Simulation ran thousands of scenarios Continued from Page 1A relative proximity to areas where people live and gather. They also fall in the path where tsunami inundation will most likely occur, researchers said. The simulation ran thou- sands of scenarios based on the starting points of 4,500 imaginary people, who were distributed mostly downtown and on the beach to resemble where most people would be on a busy, summer day. While Horning agrees the Broadway Bridge and 12th Avenue structures are heavily trafficked, these bridges hap- pen to be ones that will fare “quite nicely” in the event of an earthquake, he believes, THE DAILY ASTORIAN W EDNESDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) and that it is all the other bridges in town that could fail. “I agree that the East Broadway and the 12th Ave- nue structures are important lifelines, but they ought to be regarded as capable of with- standing the next quake and they should be lauded as great examples of good bridges,” Horning said in an email. Oregon State civil engi- neer Dan Cox said he did not want give the impression that the bridges were not good in this study since the team did not do any structural engi- neering analysis. “The main focus of our study was to understand what were the most important bridges for evacuation,” Cox said. In a July work session, Horning hopes to discuss a strategy and funding mech- anism to replace all of Sea- side’s bridges. Last week, Cox and his colleague Haizhong Wang emphasized their research — funded by the Oregon Sea Grant and the National Sci- ence Foundation — is not an end-all solution for tsunami preparations in Seaside, and that they hoped their find- ings would be a “piece of the puzzle.” “This is not something to panic over,” Horning said. “It is something to participate in and complete within a respon- sible period of time.” chusetts. As always, the couple had plenty of connections. “We had a lot of friends back here, and they said, ‘Why don’t you retire here?’” Joyce Nelson said. In 1991, just a couple of years after retirement, Nelson was appointed to the hospital board, where he once served as chairman. He wasn’t the most talkative during meetings, but others on the board remem- bered how supportive he was to them. A military man, Nelson was also keen on details such as grammar. “He would go through the budget and say — on page 42, paragraph four — that ‘it’s’ should be ‘its’,” said Constance Waisanen, the board’s current president. Nelson did not want a plaque or trophy when he stepped down last year. Rather, the board cre- ated a new title of trustee emeri- tus specifically for him. “He always carried himself with such dignity,” Waisanen said. “He brought something really unique.” In addition to the hospi- tal board, Nelson served two years as a Port of Astoria com- missioner and spent time on the Astoria Library advisory board. He created the local chapter of the Military Officers Associa- tion of America and also served on the organization’s national board. Since 2015, Troedsson has been a member of the board that Nelson expanded locally. “It provides, first and fore- most, an avenue for advocacy of services for military fami- lies,” Troedsson said. “It also provides a social opportunity for officers to connect.” A public memorial ser- vice for Nelson — with Tro- edsson, Phillips and state and Coast Guard officials scheduled to speak — is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at the Air Sta- tion Astoria hangar. His inurn- ment will take place at the Coast Guard Academy Columbarium. As time passes, friends and family will remember Nelson’s strong — and tasteful — sense of humor, even temperament, caring nature and loyalty. “If you were a friend of his,” Phillips said, “you were a friend for life.” Bird: Council’s proclamation for next month Continued from Page 1A Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a landmark federal law that protects dozens of species. The red-winged black- bird was chosen because they are abundant and rep- resent the local ecology, Maine said. Recogniz- ing them would also hold historical value as many live on the Little Pompey Wetland — a marsh named after the son of Sacagawea from the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Cannon Beach Elementary School fifth-graders more than 20 years ago. Part of the reason city councilors delayed the proc- stack Rock Awareness Pro- gram protecting its interests, Maine said. Without hearing any strong objections, the City Council unanimously decided to schedule the proc- lamation for next month. For Mayor Sam Steidel, the tension between the red- winged blackbird and tufted puffin was described suc- cinctly in a letter from a for- mer Cannon Beach Elemen- tary School student who was a part of the Little Pompey Wetland project. “Puffins are second homeowners,” Steidel quoted from the letter. “But the red-winged blackbirds are the residents.” lamation was in response to some in the community ask- ing why the town’s iconic bird — the tufted puffin — was not chosen. The council asked Maine if puffins were considered. “No, we didn’t really consider the puffin. It wasn’t about the puffin,” Maine said. “Though it has been portrayed as a kind of battle of the birds.” Maine reiterated that the committee believes the red- winged blackbird deserves the visibility more than the elusive tufted puffin, which only nest on Haystack Rock a few months a year. 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