Wang warned that the United States and North Korea appear headed for a collision. “We don’t know what Trump is going to do about North Korea,” he said. But Washington has long argued that the conflict cannot be solved without more help from China, North Korea’s last real ally. North Korea and China were once as close as “lips and teeth,” as Communist revolutionary leader Mao Zedong put it. The United States and South Korea say the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system is necessary to shoot down North Korea missiles.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2017 05:45 UTC