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?
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.
China has been leaning on North Korea?
How exactly did they do that? If you could be specific.