Posted on 01/06/2016 10:04:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump said Wednesday that the US should pressure China into getting North Korea under control.
"It's something I've been talking about for a long time. You have this madman over there who probably would use it," Trump said during an interview on "Fox & Friends."
"And nobody talks to him, other than of course Dennis Rodman," he said. "That's about it."
Trump was referring to North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, while addressing North Korea's announcement Tuesday night that it had successfully conducted a hydrogen-bomb test.
Many experts are skeptical that North Korea actually detonated a hydrogen bomb, citing the country's long history of misleading and false claims. But if it did, the incident would represent a significant escalation of the volatile country's nuclear arsenal.
Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, argued on Fox News that China had the unique ability to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions. China has long been a benefactor to North Korea and is its primary foreign ally, though the two countries have diverged over Pyongyang's development of nuclear weapons and disruptive regional policies.
"China has … total control over North Korea," Trump said. "And China should solve that problem. And if they don't solve the problem, we should make trade very difficult for China.
"We are holding China up," he added. "They're taking so much money. They're draining our country, and they're toying with us with North Korea. China should do it. They say they can't, they 'don't have that power.' They're toying with our politicians, who don't know what they're doing."
Trump said he would also lean on the US' economic ties and military alliance with South Korea.
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China has been leaning on North Korea, but the Norks just won’t behave. China doesn’t have the control that Trump thinks it does.
Let’s just thank Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton for giving North Korea those reactors...for peaceful use, of course.
And Carter Akbar for removing the secular leaders of Iran in the 70s for radical Islamic Clerics.
China plus the US plus others, then. Trump takes the threat seriously and would assemble a team to deal with it. Obama would jet say the Norms are JV.
I think that the PRC could engineer a coup, if they really wanted to. But then they would be stuck with a failed state and a tide of refugees fleeing into Chinese territory. So far, that appears to be a worse outcome for the PRC than the current regime.
Do you really think Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about?
Who else warned of Bin Laden two years before he attacked?
Frankly, I don’t think Trump thinks a whole lot about what he talks about. If he thinks it would make a good sound bite, he says it.
If the Chinese really wanted to cut North Korea off completely, they would collapse in a few weeks. That is what Trump is asking for.
I would go further than Trump, and tell the Chinese they have our permission to take over North Korea and run it, just as long as they respect the southern border. They just might take him up on that.
Yup. That's really the central problem with the entire North Korea situation. As bad as the Norks are, no one--not the U.S., not South Korea, not China, not Russia--wants to deal with the mess that would ensue if the North Korean government were to fall. The Kims have done so much damage to that country and its people that trying to re-integrate them into the world would be a nightmare.
Nah, North Korea wouldn't collapse. There would be another famine (just as there was after the Soviet Union fell, and with it the Soviet support of North Korea), but the elites (and military) would still have enough to eat. Perhapps another famine would lead to the fall of the regime eventually, but that's not certain, and in any event, it would take far longer than "weeks."
Kerry is already on the job finding out how much stuff NK wants
China has been leaning on North Korea?
How exactly did they do that? If you could be specific.
I don’t think the Chinese would put up with “refugees” flooding across their border.
I think Seoul has a better chance of becoming a burning ash heap before Damascus does.
“-—————— trying to re-integrate them into the world would be a nightmare. “
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I agree. The poor people are so thoroughly brainwashed that they are little more then robots.
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By sending officials to stand with Kim and not imposing sanctions on the condition that North Korea stop nuclear tests. Next steps would include cutting off tourism and oil going to NK from China. The original threats have not worked, however.
“Chinese officials had agreed last fall to send a senior official to the parade in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang — the first such visit since Kim Jong-un, the current leader, took power in 2011 — partly on the condition that the North would refrain from nuclear tests, said Evans J. R. Revere, a former senior State Department specialist on the North.”
Control your dog, Sir! LOL
Is that a joke?
Come on.
Trump is playing *entirely* to the domestic USA audience when he uses unstatesman-like terms such as “madman” that would actually make a future international solution more difficult for himself if he later won the White House.
It’s not as tabloidesque as Hillary talking about Space Aliens maybe visiting us yesterday, but it’s low-brow.
We’re already stuck currently with an amateur in the White House. The two new leading candidates aren’t raising the bar for statesmanship.
I remain unconvinced that NK has a hydrogen bomb.
True, a regular fission bomb could be made by a 16 year old nerd in his basement on weekends...
but a fusion bomb is alot more technical.
I mean REALLY, REALLY technical.
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