“China has tremendous power over North Korea and they take our money so we have power over China”, Trump said. “Any guy who can take over from his father with all those generals and everybody else that probably wanted the position … this is not someone to be underestimating”. Once again, we can see how easy it is for USA items to be diverted to places and people where they are not supposed to go. A meeting convened last September by the National Academy of Sciences, he said, concluded that a number of technologies “had reduced the technical barriers to acquiring and using bioweapons”, but that they still remained so hard to develop that they “require state-level resources” and lie beyond the capabilities of lone wolves.
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“Why didn’t we put something in there when we’re making a deal and we’re giving them $150 billion”, he asked. “China should do that”. As controversial as many of his domestic policy proposals have proven to be thus far, the GOP frontrunner’s foreign policy solutions often raise equal or greater alarm among moderates and progressives and his comments on CBS This Morning were continuations of that narrative.
CBS’s Norah O’Donnell asked him how he’d do it. In January, North Korea completed its fourth nuclear test, claiming it had detonated a hydrogen bomb – despite wide skepticism from experts.
Washington, Seoul and others consider the launch a banned test of missile technology.
Clapper said that Pyongyang has not flight-tested a long-range, nuclear-armed missile but is committed to its development.
Ri was conspicuously absent from the gathering of senior officials of the ruling Workers’ Party and a rally to observe North Korea’s rocket launch this week.
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North Korea already faces wide-ranging sanctions from the United States and under existing U.N. resolutions is prohibited from trading in weapons and importing luxury goods.
