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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
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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,
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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.”
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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. The
puffin will always be an icon
and already has the Hay-
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