Piers Morgan: The One Simple Thing China MUST Do That Will Stop North Korea In Its Tr
September 5, 2017 By Ron Eagle
Piers Morgan: The One Simple Thing China MUST Do That Will Stop North Korea In Its Tracks
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On Sunday, North Korea detonated its sixth nuclear weapon and first hydrogen bomb.
It was by far the most powerful yet, sparking a 6.3-magnitude earthquake and prompting tremors felt in China and Japan.
According to dailymail.co.uk: This, according to experts, indicates the hydrogen bomb had a 100-kiloton yield.
Like me, you probably don’t know your kiloton from your kilogram.
But here’s an analogy that will make the scale of this weapon and explosion crystal clear for everyone: that means the device was SEVEN TIMES stronger than the atomic bomb America dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
The kind of intercontinental ballistic missile North Korea deploys to carry such a bomb could technically reach the United States.
And Vipin Narang, a nuclear expert at MIT, told the Washington Post that North Korea could ‘destroy the better part of a city with this yield.’
Put all these facts together, and you start to understand just how serious and potentially catastrophic this crisis has become.
No wonder then that Secretary of Defense James Mattis warned ‘any threat to the United States or its territories, or our allies, will be met with a massive military response – both effective and overwhelming.’
Nor that Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Korean peninsular was now ‘closer to war than at any time’ which would be ‘a disaster for the region and world.’
The question, once again, remains a simple yet highly complex one: what the hell do we do about this?
Nobody, least of all the US, actually wants a nuclear war.
I’m pretty certain North Korean leader Kim Jong-un doesn’t want one either.
Why would he? His whole strategy to date, like his father, has been to build a military defence so big and powerful it protects his vile regime from attack.
If Jong-un fires one bomb at the US or its allies, he would sentence himself and his country to instant annihilation.
But the world can no longer just sit back and let this crazed upstart act with such brazen and dangerous impunity given the increasing size and power of his nuclear weaponry.
What worries me most about this situation is the chance of North Korea making a horrendous mistake and accidentally provoking war with a test that goes horribly wrong.
So Jong-un must be stopped in his nuclear tracks, that much is clear.
But how, if military action is not a realistic option?
Tough new United Nations Security Council sanctions implemented last month were a good start, and it was very encouraging to see every member country signing up to them.
Unfortunately, I fear they don’t go nearly far enough.
North Korea needs to be attacked financially in a way so devastating it is rendered economically impotent, and the most lethal administer of such an attack is its biggest trading partner, China.
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