China Is Key to North Korea
Gordon Chang writes the US has a China problem, not a North Korean one:
Today, China supplies about 90% of North Korea’s oil, 80% of its consumer goods and 45% of its food. Beijing is Pyongyang’s only formal military ally and its primary backer in the United Nations Security Council and other diplomatic forums. If it weren’t for the Chinese, there would be no North Korean missile program, no North Korean nuclear program and no North Korea.
North Korea is China’s proxy. If it wanted to, China could fix the North Korean problem the way we “fixed the problem” of Grenada in 1983. We should tell the Chinese across all of our communications channels with them:
“North Korea is your proxy and we hold you 100% responsible for their actions. We are going to ignore them for now because we trust that you have them on a tight leash. However if they attack the USA or its allies, the US will consider the act as if it was planned and executed by you and you will be held completely accountable.”
Do I expect Hillary or Barack to say this? I can’t even imagine it.
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