Posted on 03/23/2017 6:45:17 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Speaking on Thursday ahead of his first trip to Beijing, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged that Washington’s policy towards North Korea had failed.
That’s putting it mildly. After more than 20 years of US efforts aimed at halting Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme, the North Korean regime is closer than ever to developing a credible strike capability. This month, it fired four medium-range missiles into the Sea of Japan in an exercise apparently aimed at demonstrating its targeting ability.
That test followed the underground detonation last September of a nuclear device with twice the force of the US atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Suddenly, the day when Kim Jong-un can mount a nuclear warhead on a missile that can threaten North Korea’s neighbours, and even the continental United States, no longer seems so far away. As Tillerson said on Thursday: “It is clear a different approach is required.”
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, gets in a UH-60 Blackhawk after arriving at US Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaeck, South Korea. Photo: AFP
Yet the former oil executive had little new to offer on the policy front. “We look to China to fulfil its obligations,” he said. Like his predecessors, Tillerson appears to think that if only he can enlist Beijing’s support, then US-backed economic sanctions can compel Kim to give up his nuclear arsenal.
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Anything we are forced to do to the Norks, we should do 100X to China.
Nuke those bastards.
I don’t think that article told the real reason.
Nobody wants a floodgate of millions of starving Norks, who may still be loyal to their failed regime.
N Korea is a buffer zone between China and the freedom of S Korea. China will not accept freedom on its border. If North Korea merges with S. Korea then freedom will be right there at the border with China. The merger will never happen.
Oh please the Berlin Wall\Iron Curtain fell and millions didn’t die in the
streets, let China build their own Korean border wall
Tillerson should relay to XI “President Trump would like to know when you are going to reign in Kim. If you are unable or unwilling to do so, we will take care of it, but you will pay!”
So... what is the reason?
Reason? Kim U-fat has compromising photos of the Chinese senior leadership?
The writer makes a good case for why China will not pressure North Korea on just about ANY policy matter - the regime will implode and China does not want that consequence, no matter what.
The U.S. and South Korea (who, financially, does not want to have to “rescue” North Korea after a collapse there) are as hard pressed as China when it comes to any status with North Korea other than the status quo; that is anything BUT a political revolution in North Korea with massive political change from within. It happened in tightly controlled Romania, but that does not mean it can or will happen in North Korea.
“Containment” likely continues to be the policy of choice to the U.S. and South Korea.
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