Posted on 12/28/2017 10:51:32 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
President Trump said Thursday that China has been “caught red handed” selling oil to North Korea, despite U.N. sanctions and the president’s efforts to pressure the Chinese to stop doing business with Pyongyang.
“Caught RED HANDED - very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea,” Mr. Trumptweeted. “There will never be a friendly solution to the North Korea problem if this continues to happen!”
China said Thursday there had been no U.N. sanction-breaking oil sales by Chinese ships to North Korea, after a South Korea newspaper said Chinese and North Korean vessels had been illicitly linking up at sea to get oil to North Korea.
The U.N. Security Council last week unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea for a recent intercontinental ballistic missile test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products and crude oil. The resolution seeks to ban nearly 90 percent of refined petroleum exports to North Korea by capping them at 500,000 barrels a year.
The U.S.-drafted resolution also caps crude oil supplies to North Korea at 4 million barrels a year and commits the security council to further reductions if it were to conduct another nuclear test or launch another ICBM.
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Yes, but China is only doing this because they are such big humanitarians.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
China is not a country like any other. The president can not control the red generals or their families. Each of them has an army and owns the production facilities in their districts. If they want to sell missiles or oil or uranium than the fact that the president of China has promised they won’t means nothing. The oil is being sold by allies of the old Chinese regime, which was much closer to the North than the present regime. It’s an internal matter.
Now, what could be done? Fire a torpedo filled with flash powder into the ships as a warning. Get on the radio and tell them they will be fired on. Or, better still, get the present regime to patrol the areas where the oil will be offloaded onto North Korean ships. Or, board and seize the North Korean ships. Every action carries its own risks of escalation. Of the list here, I think getting the Chinese Navy to do the work is the best. However, that may be a huge risk of open conflict between the various Chinese cliques.
so stop selling Oil to China , they’re just reselling it or trading it anyway
I don’t think they will be happy with the fortune in their cookie!
Maybe it’s time for The US, SK and Japan to activate a navel blockade on NK. China might then recognize our seriousness in preventing a nuclearized NK.
Just selling them the oil no one else wants to sell them.
Seriously, it’s a good bet that the Chinese oil tankers are private companies, not PLAN vessels so this is the free market finding a way around sanctions, not a government per se.
The solution is easy. Allow the transfer then board the NK vessels for inspection. If they have oil say you’re going to enforce the sanctions and sink their boat.
I remember watching the newscasters breathlessly reporting that giant Chinese armies might fight each other at Tiananmen Square.
The Chinese Army killed some protesters.
Funny how that Chinese Army seems to come together to do the communists bidding.
Predominantly faithful allies in WWII. Pretty much ingrates since.
Forking commies.
The Chinese oil shipments to North Korea are not illegal. They are undocumented.
Good point. There is also a sometimes mindboggling level of corruption in China, not to mention a mindset of what I guess I would call “disregard for consequences” among many Chinese, NOT driven by desperation or ignorance, that equals the worst that can be found anywhere else in the world.
I would add to your list “covert Chinese action resulting in sudden & unexplained (publicly) disappearance of certain shipping companies’ owners.”
If there is solid evidence that these oil shipments are occurring in the manner you and I suspect they are, the next Trump tweet perhaps should be “Big loss of face if Chinese government cannot control rogue oil shipments to N. Korea.”
Agreed on all but your last sentence: Tow the tankers to S. Korea or Japan; sell ships and oil to finance further surveillance. No need for a big oil slick... ;-)
Does anyone here still think these stupid free trade deals with China were a good idea?
Parallel article w/ spy sat photos here:
https://news.sky.com/story/president-trump-disappointed-in-china-after-north-korea-oil-deal-11187645
The article says the S. Koreans claim 30 such “instances” since October — this is no small scale operation.
I would think our surveillance people could determine forthwith if petro of some sort was being transferred...
Yeah, my sympathies are with the crews of the violating ships. Faced with being sunk on the high seas in winter the crews will ask for significant pay raises or refuse the job.
I’m good though with the ships being seized and sold at auction in Japan or South Korea. I’d spice it up a little and offer their crews a 10% cut of the sale price.
Free Enterprise drains all kinds of swamps.
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