What to do about North Korea?

[CapnAwesome]

Open ended question: I was wondering what people think should be done about North Korea? By the United States or the International community.

[The Valkyrie]

Pressure China into actually doing something about them.

Unilateral action will just draw China into the conflict.

[vorlon13]

Nuke from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

[CapnAwesome]

Pressure China into actually doing something about them.

Unilateral action will just draw China into the conflict.

Could you be more specific about what sort of pressure to put on China? Who should put it on them and how?

[brewer]

Flood the country with heroin.

[vorlon13]

NK or China ?

[vorlon13]

and how many H addicts here are going to donate their stash to the feds for a diplomatic initiative?

[Neo-Scholastic]

Pressure China into actually doing something about them.

Unilateral action will just draw China into the conflict.

I agree completely. The PRC must be encouraged to rein in that little fucker even if that means turning a blind eye to their expansion into the North China Sea.

[brewer]

NK or China ?

Why not both? 

Isn't China the main source of carfentanil now?

[Anomalocaris]

China protects North Korea because china feels weaker than and vulnerable to the US in China's own backyard, and need North Korea as a leverage and buffer.   Chinese public generally knows this.

Therefore trump's chest thumping will have precisely the opposite effect by making the Chinese public feel the case for protecting North Korea is all the stronger.

The chest thumping is, almost unbelievably, even more stupid then that, because the threat is completely hollow, and the Chinese, and the South Koreans, to say nothing of the North Koreans, knows this far better than trump.   This is no tribute to them because everyone who is anyone knows any and everything far better than trump.