Monday, December 04, 2017

If You Want to Disarm North Korea, Mr. President, Sanction China

If You Want to Disarm North Korea, Mr. President, Sanction China
"Kim Jong Un's regime doesn't have the material or expertise to make missiles: It relies on its neighbor to the north for both
Image result for kim jung nukeThe whole world now knows that Kim Jong Un has an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.
Tuesday’s night launch was a hi-tech feat aimed not at terrorizing North Korea’s near neighbors, but at sending shock waves of fear all the way across the Pacific to the United States.
And it succeeded.
President Trump immediately vowed that “additional major sanctions will be imposed on North Korea.”
The President’s goal, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders emphasized, was “to continue putting maximum pressure” on the rogue state.
But it is difficult to imagine, as a practical matter, just how that pressure is going to be applied.
Kim Jong Un’s isolated and impoverished country is already subject to the most comprehensive sanctions regime in the world.
And its people are suffering the consequences..."
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