US President Trump has expressed increasing impatience with the diplomacy of patience that the United States has followed since the Obama presidency with regard to North Korea’s nuclear and missile build-up. The Democratic Republic of North Korea is not a mere client state of China. The US has also imposed sanctions on Chinese banks and other companies doing business with North Korea. President Kim Jong-un has justifiably traced his bellicosity to the continued existence of a state of war between South Korea and North Korea. In the wake of 9-ll, Bush branded North Korea as a member of an “Axis of Evil” even though no North Korean was involved in 9-ll.

Source: Manila Times July 07, 2017 15:56 UTC