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The media and various "experts" keep talking about NK and Iran as if they are totally separate issues - not really. There's a whole axis of bad actors in play, which ultimately leads back to China itself. The Norks are a proxy storefront for China to buy, sell, trade and steal through, keeping Chicom fingerprints directly off such "transactions", while providing a buffer territory and foil for use between them and the rest of Pacific Asia. NK is also a good front for the Chicoms to live test their missile tech projects through. And nuclear - the last known official nuke weapon test by the Chicoms was on July 29, 1996, but you can bet Chicom scientists were all over if not actually running the blasting that went on in Norkland. So the Chicoms have to weight the choice of relieving themselves from the liability of supporting a economically draining welfare state versus that of greatly diminishing the viability of, if not losing, a strategic proxy asset. MAYBE Trump has managed to flip the script and transition NK into a liability headache for China, and there is no other way out now but to address it.

Not all of it leads to China. A vast majority of the missile capacity to go as far as they have has been supplied by Russia. I think they have a bigger pile of crap at stake than China at this point.

And the original supercomputers that wee shipped to NK were done by Bill Clinton in 1994/5 that were increased from industrial grade to weapons grade after they arrived under the guise of agriculture assistance and even the department of transportation here got a piece of the financial action. We’re just as filthy as anyone else. Toss in Pakistan for the technology and you’ve got a whole lot guilty of assistance. Russia for the projectile, us for the computers, Pakistan for the technol;ogy, and China for the MRV tracking program the US gave them by Clinton as a payoff for election funds in 1993 through Hughes Electronics and Loral Space and Communication of which they were ultimately fined millions for doing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/missile/keystories.htm

So the libs and Clinton were in it up to their armpits. China was only stupid enough to get into it. And if they and Clinton hadn’t supplied MRV, NK couldn’t hit the ocean.

rwood