US Wants China and Russia to Fully Enforce UN Sanctions on North Korea
Good luck trying to make this happen:
The United States on Friday welcomed the U.N. Security Council’s united support for the fully verified denuclearization of North Korea and pressed China and Russia to strictly enforce U.N. sanctions to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused North Korea of violating an array of tough sanctions imposed by the council. He warned that ”when sanctions are not enforced, the prospects for the successful denuclearization of North Korea are diminished.”
Nonetheless, Pompeo told reporters after meeting behind closed doors with the 15 council members that President Donald Trump ”remains upbeat about the prospects for denuclearization” following his historic summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. ”So do I, as progress is happening,” he added without elaborating.
The Trump administration hopes that one day North Korea will be at the United Nations ”not as a pariah but as a friend,” Pompeo said. But ”it will take full enforcement of sanctions for us to get there” as well as Kim following through ”on his personal commitments” to Trump. [Korea Times]
You can read more at the link, but I have to hand it to Secretary Pompeo, he is doing everything possible to not be seen as the belligerent whenever the breaking point with North Korea’s foot dragging on denuclearization happens.
Despite my positive personality my hops after this summit have become not if but when things return to what they were pre-Olympics with Kim Fatty and the Trumpster throwing barbs at each other and and arguing over who’s nuclear package is bigger….
It’s like firing a Civil Service employee… Gotta dot all the eyes and cross all the tees before he lets Mattis deal with any recalitrant nork nukes…
Let this pantomime continue and then we’ll show Fatty the true cost of nuclear weapons.
Good luck with that. I wonder what President Trump expected? Did he know he was fed a plate of shit? Even if he did, and Economic pressure is subverted by China, Russia, and even South Korea; what’s next? Starting a WMD war is no option and KJU knows it.
Even Russia and China can be hurt in a trade war. And they’re both facing sanction and/or tariffs over their past behavior. The US doesn’t need to use nukes to cripple our opponents. The Chinese and Russian economies are not as healthy as CNN might have let on.
Sample interweb views:
China: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-breakingviews/breakingviews-review-the-flimsy-finances-behind-chinas-miracle-idUSKCN1GL1Y6
Russia: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/04/russias-economy-is-a-mix-of-good-bad-and-ugly-amid-sanctions.html