China may have said they cut off coal but it’s been smuggled back. These types of sanctions simply mean finding another way to get the job done anyway.
My biggest fear here is the intel.
The gambit here appears to be a posit to China along the lines of “If China is going to lead in the modern world, it must demonstrate control over their closest client state, the one currently threatening thermonuclear war against the US. The one you supplied with the materials equipping them with the ability to make this threat. We expect you to deal with this before we have to before they make good on their threat.”
The CIA is not - reliable.
If they have subs, and their subs are better than ws think, it is going to happen very quickly.
I think what the US did to the world economy in 2008 was the last straw in failed world leadership for most of the world. It would not surprise me if quiet discussion about a post US led world occurred furtively since 2008.
Then we elect President Trump, who vows to make America great again, unexpectedly.
Brexit happens.
We fine Deutsche, threaten to sink their biggest bank.
I can’t help thinking NKs tech is far better than we think it is, and the world will help NK take us out suddenly.
We may have found this out. Maybe not.
NK is a pawn the wbole world can get behind losing if it means not being led by a country that produces a string of leaders like the ones we’ve produced in the last 20 years.
I think this is theater. NK went rogue, their tech was better than we thought, and now the US is about the size of the original thirteen colonies.
Very few reliable sources of information out there.