Faced with growing US calls to “solve” North Korea, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi rejected the US talk of the use of force, while expressing annoyance at the repeated suggestion that the 15-member UN Security Council seemed to expect China to solve the situation alone.
Wang went on to say that the Security Council should stop arguing over who should be responsible for taking the first step on North Korea, and should just join together to act, adding that it is “time to seriously consider resuming talks” with North Korea.
This suggestion was, of course, immediately rejected by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, despite him suggesting in previous comments today that direct talks with North Korea were possible under certain preconditions. In this event, however, he insisted that meeting with North Korea would “reward their bad behavior.”
Russia also issued comments backing China over the matter, saying that threats for the use of force are “unacceptable,” and they agreed to mutually work together to try to get diplomacy restarted with North Korea, despite the apparent US opposition to the idea.
The words, “diplomacy, statesmanship, dialogue, etc.” do not exist in
the lexicon of American foreign policy now controlled by the militarists
in Washington, DC.
We’ve tried two things, and both failed repeatedly. Don’t do them anymore.
We tried threatening and sanctioning. There is no reason to think that will work better now than it did during a famine that killed 10% of the population.
We tried “trust us” direct talks in which we demanded everything and offered nothing.
So do something new. What? It is not like there is a magic list of limited options. Be creative. Use our link to China. Find out what is needed, and be prepared to offer it. China has a list, and we’ve ignored that for decades, things like ending the war of 1950.
We’ve tried two things, and both failed repeatedly. Don’t do them anymore.
We tried threatening and sanctioning. There is no reason to think that will work better now than it did during a famine that killed 10% of the population.
We tried “trust us” direct talks in which we demanded everything and offered nothing.
So do something new. What? It is not like there is a magic list of limited options. Be creative. Use our link to China. Find out what is needed, and be prepared to offer it. China has a list, and we’ve ignored that for decades, things like ending the war of 1950.
If China needs to solve the North Korea problem alone then why doesn’t the USA pull troops from South Korea?