A 25% duty tax on all imported china goods would get them to solve the NK problem
Totally true, but not domestically tenable here.
Totally true, but not domestically tenable here.
10,000,000 Wal-Mart customers would march on Washington!
:)
Our company is paying 32% already. Would 57% be enough? We and tens of thousands of other import-based companies would have to lay off a million American workers - but it's for the greater good, so that's OK. /s
China will never "solve" the NK problem because they are still fighting WWII against Japan. They like the idea that NK lies in between - and hates Japan even more than they do. That's why THAAD freaked them out so much - it might actually work to neutralize a potential NK (or Chinese) missile threat against Japan. However, China isn't going to intervene on Kim's behalf, either.
I think it's time to deploy some of our secret stuff that we have been saving to use against Russia. Use space-based technologies to destroy NK's launch capabilities without a word of explanation, or even an admission that it happened. Send him back into hibernation. Overthrowing the Kim regime is too big a task for the fractured US government to take on right now - we have a cold civil war to settle, first.
The answer is in post 7. Period. Tax the crap out of everything from China and stop the tax when they deal with North Korea. When China has to pay for their wayward protege they will address him decisively.
This is a WAG on my part and only based on media coverage here and in China, but I felt like the Chinese Premiere may have viewed this crisis as a chance for China to step up as a responsible partner. It appears, another WAG on my part based on Chinese media, that he hit a brick wall when he returned home from his meetings with Trump. There remains a very powerful hard-line faction in China that seems to have a cold-war worldview and persuading them is the key.