President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that China holds the key to defusing tensions between the U. S. and North Korea. As Trump returned from his 12-day tour around Asia, he made much of the…
President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that China holds the key to defusing tensions between the U. S. and North Korea. As Trump returned from his 12-day tour around Asia, he made much of the fact that he had persuaded China’s leader, Xi Jinping, to send an envoy to North Korea. China is North Korea’s only real ally and its major trading partner, so if Kim Jong-un was open to listening to anyone, it would be China.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, President Trump’s strategy failed at the first hurdle. Kim Jong-un refused to even meet with the Chinese envoy, and as we saw earlier this week, North Korea’s response was to carry out a new missile test. In a remarkable act of defiance, North Korea claims that the new Hwasong-15 missile is capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to any city on the U. S. mainland.
It has taken President Trump a full week to acknowledge that the Chinese mission to North Korea has failed. Trump used Twitter to announce that the Chinese envoy “who just returned from North Korea, seems to have had no impact on ‘Little Rocket Man’.” It would seem that with the failure of China’s efforts to bring North Korea to heel, Trump has decided that the best way forward is to hurl childish insults at Kim Jong-un.
Other than playing to the most base instincts of some of his supporters, it is difficult to comprehend what Donald Trump hopes to achieve with these insults. Let’s remember that earlier this week, CNN was reporting that both Senator Lindsey Graham and Secretary of Defence, James Mattis, were indicating that the U.
