North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced late Tuesday that dictator Kim Jong-un had personally directed the launching of a new model of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), named Hwasong-15, and that he declared the test a success.
China is North Korea’s largest trading partner, ensuring that the Kim regime continues to possess the funds necessary for its illegal weapons development. Beijing claims it has abided by international sanctions and that American aggression against North Korea is to blame for current tensions.
"It’s fair to say that US policy on North Korea has failed, and so has the policy of President Donald Trump," the Times declared on Wednesday. Specifically, the Times complains that Trump "heightened the pressure on North Korea at the wrong time, intensifying the tensions on the peninsula almost to the utmost, leaving little space for diplomatic maneuvering."
China does not get that we have a President who views political norms as concepts the underpinnings of which may, upon demand, be required to be defended, not unwaveringly followed. I'm pretty sure the word "why" is Presidentially used a lot in The Oval Office. And if the answer does not make sense, a change is, er, considered.