17 July, 2017
"We must take every diplomatic and economic measure now to stop North Korea and to prevent nuclear war". Indeed, we are now witnessing a slow-motion repeat of the Cuban missile crisis. The U.S.is simply too strong.
Certainly, China would not allow South Korea to send missiles its way along with promises of nuking Beijing while the United States kept still about the provocation. The ensuing exchanges would have annihilated not only both countries but the world in its entirety. Those deliberations were secretly recorded (known only by Kennedy and maybe his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy).
He also criticized China's economic retaliation against Seoul over the deployment of the us -led Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system, calling Beijing's concerns "unfounded".
Hopefully, those meetings focused on real policy options and courses of action- other than the use of military force, which most experts agree would risk a catastrophic war- the USA should consider. Whether North Korea's opponents have developed bigger weapons is no longer the issue.
The official said it is the priority of South Korea and its ally, the United States, to convince China to put pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear arsenal.
A delegation of Opposition leaders have met North Korean embassy officials in New Delhi amid stand-off between USA and Pyongyang.
Clearly, acceptance of a nuclear-armed North Korea, with the capacity to strike against US cities, is an unacceptable outcome, because Kim Jong-un's rationality is in doubt, and his glee at the prospect of vaporizing American cities and their inhabitants is palpable.
The Seoul-based Data Base Center for North Korean Human Rights issued a report which estimates that approximately 50,000 laborers are employed in Russian Federation. But it is not clear that China has the ability - or even the will - to do so.
Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski says not enough is being done about North Korea's launch of missiles. Despite our efforts at diplomacy, sanctions, military exercises and other methods to thwart North Korea's nuclear ambitions, it has continued to make progress towards achieving its goal to become a nuclear power. They are created to ensure the survival of the country and the regime. While acknowledging that China had tightened sanctions on North Korea, she declared: "We expect and we want you to do a whole lot more".
Instead, as Rajan Menon and others have suggested, there is a need to pursue incremental action.
This goes against a general trend of regional distrust in North Korea, with at least 45 percent of the people in Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea, the US, Australia and Japan seeing the country in negative light.
John Schilling, an aerospace engineer with decades of experience analyzing North Korean missile technology, estimates that the range could be even farther, putting the USA naval base in San Diego with range of the new ICBM. "My bipartisan legislation gives those that now conduct trade with North Korea a clear choice - either do business with this heinous outlaw regime or do business with the world's leading economic and military power".
