Posted on 09/08/2017 9:18:32 AM PDT by pgkdan
Where's the "ultimatum"?
This part:
“Not only can Japan and South Korea be reasonably expected to develop nuclear arsenals. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and other inherently unstable Arab states can be expected to develop or purchase nuclear arsenals in response to concerns over North Korea and its ally Iran with its nuclear weapons program linked to Pyongyang’s.”
Particularly as it applies to Japan and South Korea, should be a wake up call to China, as those prospects cannot seem to China as in their national interest. China should be wanting immensely to work with the U.S. to deter North Korea and avoid further nuclear proliferation in its neighborhood.
We need to take a step back and look at the big picture...
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“Despite efforts by the United Nations to impose isolating sanctions on North Korea in response to the country’s continued development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, trade between Russia and North Korea soared more than 85 percent in the first four months of the year.”
http://www.dw.com/en/russia-steps-up-north-korea-support-to-constrain-us/a-38867861
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Sept 5, 2017
The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a nuclear bomb by the North on Sunday.
Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of “military hysteria” could lead to global catastrophe.
He said diplomacy was the only answer.
China, the North’s main ally, has also called for a return to negotiations. ...”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41158281
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance
Nothing would please me more than to wake up tomorrow morning and find out that Pyongyang had been turned into a glass lined crater. The rest of North Korea could be reunited with the South and the maniac deranged dwarf would be gone.
Does Senator Rand Paul know about this?
If so, shouldn’t he be writing a “Declaration of War” against Korea?
Otherwise, won’t we all have to wait for the “fat boy” to vaporize Silicon Valley?
That way, the world wouldn’t blame us, when we, as clear “victims” of a nuclear attack, “respond”....
Russia and china both want a "unified Korea" as well, only one under their pawn's (communist NK) rule.
>>>Where’s the “ultimatum”?<<<
There isn’t one. It was just a word the author stuck into the headline to see if you and I would be fooled into reading the article.
The conundrum is that we have economic leverage against China that we didn’t have in the 80s, or even early 90s, before China became a large and industrialized economy. However, if we use it, by doing what we ought to do in bilateral trade relations, they may decide they have no incentive to assist us in dealing with North Korea. Squeeze them hard enough and they may even be willing to respond militarily to anything we do with North Korea, as well as in the South China Sea. Then we would be forced to decide whether to wage war with China, which we would most definitely not want to do if it can be avoided.
Your point, about nuclearizing Japan and South Korea, may be the key to getting out of this conundrum. Deals with those countries would have to be approved and in the works. I don’t think China will respond until it is faced with a done deal. At that point, and to avoid the militarization of Japan, who China greatly fears, they might be willing to “allow” us to destroy the North Korea military and take out the Kim dictatorship. Maybe we could strike a deal that lets us do that, maybe even with their assistance, so long as we do not occupy and take away a huge buffer state from them. For that, I think they would go to war. To make NK into a more docile vassal, hopefully not.
exactly - the Norks have given zero reason to believe they will first strike.
bolton is a discredited neo-con whose lies, misinformation, and half-truths are responsible for thousands of ruined American lives.
See http://nypost.com/2017/09/08/north-koreas-capital-is-a-ghost-town-amid-nuclear-testing/
And while aerial views, suggests a rather modern capital city.
...........and Caroline, I suppose you have the balls to issue an order to the US Military to KILL millions of Korean’s and tens of thousands of American moms and dads sons!
Yes, we may have to, and a nuke or two may hit the US...............but, let’s take a break from saying “next Tuesday morning Trump should kill a few million folks.....”
Time to initiate a trade war. Blockade NK and stop all trade with China until NK capitulates.
Sure. No reason why we shouldn't wait until a nuke hits somewhere.
You know, we are lucky. I bet Kim the Nork fatso could NEVER hit DC with a nuke. Nope, that would show the world his program was really not to be messed with. But it’s really just beyond his capability.
(Nork agents lurking, yep. Americans laugh at you because we know you could NEVER deliver a nuke to DC. Honest injun, hope to die, that’s what we think. We dare you. We double dog dare you...but we know you just cant pull it off)
LOL...
He may be totally nuts, but one has to know that what he’s doing is almost certainly on the instruction, or at least full (secret) approval of the ChiComs and Russians.
there is so much fake ( neo con ) news going around regarding the Norks these days it’s funny.
The best part are all the chicken little hysterically running around crying the sky is falling, the sky is falling while wetting their pants.
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