Posted on 10/20/2016 8:16:46 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
One of the world’s most powerful nations is standing in the way of subduing North Korea
Amanda Macias
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the world, led by the US and its Asian allies, has tried to confront and defuse North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, the Hermit Kingdom’s closest ally and the region’s most powerful nation has ignored and thwarted international efforts.
“China has been part of the problem rather than part of the solution to the North Korean nuclear problem,” Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow of Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation, told Business Insider.
“They have acted like North Korea’s lawyer at the UN Security Council by obstructing more robust international sanctions, denying evidence of North Korean provocations, watering down stronger UN resolutions, and insisting on loopholes,” Klingner added.
“China is the reason sanctions against North Korea haven’t had much of an effect,” Rebeccah Heinrichs, a fellow at the Hudson Institute specializing in nuclear deterrence and missile defense, told Business Insider.
While Pyongyang has already been slammed with heavy sanctions, Klingner explains that the US can use “secondary sanctions to wean Chinese banks and businesses away from economically engaging with North Korea.”
“US legal authorities and the centrality of the US dollar to the international financial system gives Washington tremendous leverage. The vast majority of all international financial transactions, including North Korea’s, are denominated in dollars and thus must pass through a US Treasury Department-regulated bank in the United States,” Klingner told Business Insider.
Meanwhile, the Hermit Kingdom’s brazen missile tests continue.
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Yeah, I know they've been destroyed, but the line can start up again and they are relatively cheap.
A TEL with 2 missiles can fit in a C-5, meaning you could deploy 100 road-mobile nukes in 24hrs.
They would have the range to hit Beijing from either Japan or South Korea and could get there in 10mins with a 50m CEP.
China would be looking to cut a deal and would bring their little dog to heal.
Obama sure seems to want to overstay his Constitutional welcome. He’s even resorted to smattering some facts in.
China continues to employ the North Koreans in a political game of ‘good cop, bad cop’ as the Chinese pursue Pacific - and then world - domination.
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