Chinese Ambassador to the UN Liu Jieyi told the UN today about growing concerns that tensions between the US and North Korea could rapidly get “out of control,” with disastrous consequences for the entire region.
North Korea has tested a missile today, a move that led to an immediate condemnation from President Trump, raising more concern that his talk of dealing with them “rapidly,” and H.R. McMaster’s talk of all the US options involving attacking North Korea, a more imminent threat.
Trump has been playing up the idea of North Korea being a huge threat lately, and did so again today in phone calls with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese President Abe Shinzo. with the White House bragging that Trump had gotten renewed commitments for a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
China has been trying to get the US to the negotiating table with North Korea for some time now,and both they and South Korea have delivered proposals where North Korea would end nuclear testing in return for the US ending wargames with South Korea and reduce its military presence along North Korea’s border.
All indications are that the US has not only rejected the specifics of the deals, but the very idea of having to make concessions. President Trump is also said to have warned China that they have to “end this nonsense once and for all,” or that the US would do so.
Trump will never admit he’s wrong or that his mouth (or twitter-turds) have put him (or the US) in an untenable position…so, many bad things are possible.
I find it hard to believe that even Trump is foolish enough to attack North Korea, but the way he keeps digging, he might soon find he leaves himself no choice.
You can include both China and Russia in your “foolish” Trump opinion, because they both issued statements the DPRK must freeze both missile tests and nuclear production. The only fool is Kim and his lemmings running off the cliff with him.
Russia and China committed to the peaceful resolution of the problem. They called on the US to stop its military exercises.
Russia and China said Kim must stop. If he doesn’t stop then a peaceful resolution may not be possible.
Peace is what you have until you start a war.
Directed energy, microwave, plasma and EMF weapons, rods from God. Made in America, tested in North Korea. Who’s gonna know?
North Korea newer attacked any neighbour except South Korea because Americans constantly provoking North by war games with South.
North Korea has nothing else but to keep t sting these type of missiles which Americans have more dangerous weopons.
Under estimating North and looking down on them and won’t even considering talking to them is the results we seen today.
Now I guess they will take North Korea seriously and can’t be ignored.