[unspun]

I'm not saying the U.S. isn't economically and militarily stronger than China, we are. I'm saying that China's threat, (or pressure), was taken more seriously by NK than ours were. And that is an embarrassment.

Quiz question: The president of what country has been pushing China to pressure North Korea about all this?

[unspun]

Hint: China is a very significant one of the (what number) in this president's plan for "The (same number) Party Talks."

[TheCrusader]

"Quiz question: The president of what country has been pushing China to pressure North Korea about all this?"

Answer: the same president who allowed N. Korea to continue building a nuclear arsenal and detonate a test nuke, and who went to the U.N., (of all places), to ask for a wrist slap on North Korea, and then begged China to stop NK from detonating yet another nuke because he felt the cost of stopping NK himself would be too expensive politically and militarily.

As for China's alleged 'reigning in' of North Korea, do you really think it will be lasting, or even that it's real? So I have a quiz question for you:
"What would have been better, the U.S. bombing North Korea's nuclear arsenal and setting them back at least ten years or more, or China "talking" with their Communist friends in private and claiming that they have 'sovled' the problem?"