In a flurry of Twitter statements this morning, President Trump once again appeared to be threatening unilateral US action against North Korea, accusing the reclusive nation of “looking for trouble,” declaring that the US will “solve the problem” with or without Chinese help.
China, of course, proposed a joint deescalation effort between the US and North Korea as a way to convince Pyongyang to give up their nuclear program not long ago. But the US immediately rejected that suggestion, and has repeatedly attacked the idea of further diplomacy.
President Trump has continued to play up the idea that China could quickly and easily “solve” North Korea by themselves if they wanted to, and insisted in further comments today that the US was willing to give China a better trade deal if they did so.
It’s not nearly so clear, however, that China has as much clout with North Korea as they are believed by the administration to. North Korea has clearly taking multiple actions that have inconvenienced China in recent years, and China has shown little ability to rein them in beyond a very basic level.
North Korea is not Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, or Yemen, and
has absolutely no fear of the Slum Lord or his corrupt USG regime.
Tillerson’s pablum about the ‘US Will Punish Crimes Anywhere in
the World’ is bullshit. Trump had better hope he can bribe China
before the situation becomes even worse.
Aint that the truth….North Korea will cause big time damage to that
peninsula,can you imagine the human catastrophe that would unfold in that region….refuges poring into Europe is minor league stuff to whats going to unfold in that region……
But if the South Koreans & Japanese are dumb enough to encourage this idiotcy ,I say they will eat what they sow.
So now this miserable piece of sh-t psychopath is saying he could improve China’s trade deals with the US in return for cooperation with N.Korea???
And was it even a week ago when this useless lying swine of a man was saying he was going to put the heat on China re. trade deals??
Man, if any americans hasn’t figured that bast-ard out by now then you shouldn’t be allowed to walk the streets.