The Korean crisis is being stirred up by the US. China has already stated its willingness to organise talks between Washington and Kim Jong-un and has set out the basis of such talks. The US would curtail its enormous military exercises in South Korea and around the Korean peninsular and North Korea would freeze its nuclear program. The US Congress has already ruled out any such talks.
The MOAB bomb and the the Tomahawk missiles were not just a US 'message' to ISIS and Assad, but also to Kim Jong-un and China. If Kim Jong-un goes ahead with his much vaunted sixth nuclear test, its site and any others, would be immediately vulnerable to 'conventional' weapons. And China would face US military action on its border.
The US are using their military belligerence to squeeze the Chinese government. This comes out in most of the Western media as a plaintive wail for China 'to do something.' China's real role including its proposed talks barely register in the mainstream news. Ideally, for Trump, China would be forced to organise regime change in North Korea. He believes that Kim Jong-un is as much China's puppet (perhaps a little out of control) as Assad is when he (mostly) marches to Russia's tune. Time to curb Les Enfants Terribles, the sheriff is back in town.
The world needs to turn the screw on Trump, back the Chinese proposal for talks and stop this deadly game.
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