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September 16, 2017

US scrambles for response to North Korea’s nuclear ambitions

Center Board Member Colonel Klass was quoted in The Hill.

Short of starting a trade war by sanctioning China, retired Col. Richard Klass said he doesn’t think there’s a way to pressure China to support the type of blockade that would have an effect on North Korea.

“He knows we’re not going to launch a conventional attack, and unless we can do a blockade and get the Russians and Chinese to agree to it, I don’t think he’s going to stop doing what he’s doing,” Klass, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation board member, said of Kim. “This is a conundrum, and if anybody had a solution, it’d be taken up already.” Read more 

Posted in: Asia, Center in the News, North Korea, Press & In the News on North Korea, Press Room, United States

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