After a solid six months of angrily spurning all calls for diplomacy on North Korea, the Trump Administration today declared “the time for talk is over,” and that they have no intention of seeking further UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley says North Korea is already violating several UN Security Council resolutions anyhow, suggesting that the US needs to rethink its tactics toward something else, while angrily demanding China do more.
China’s already backing out of that suggestion, saying they can’t really do anything by themselves, and suggesting the US and North Korea need to talk between themselves to solve the situation. The lack of effort at the UN Security Council may be a recognition of China’s increasing annoyance at US demands, and the possibility they might block new UN action outright.
Still, Haley’s admission that the UN can’t do anything effectively sidelines her, as the Ambassador to the UN, and puts the US on an even more direct course toward attacking North Korea militarily, having rejected direct diplomacy and now seemingly deciding that international efforts to increase pressure aren’t working either.
Don’t you have to START talking before you declare that the time for talking is over?
Thats not profitable
With the sanctions we just put on N Korea and Russia , And the armament aid package we are sending to the NAZIs in the Baltics and Ukraine . Aren’t we afraid Russia might decide to send some better weapons to N Korea too . Sanctions is the reward Russia got for driving ISIS out of Syria for us . I would say our whole U.S. government is completely nuts . Did you see how they voted to put the sanctions on Russia . It looks like the United States is trying to start a bigger war .
Let’s hope the Russians and Chinese will have an opportunity to say something – to both sides – before the idiots start shooting.