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bluecircle470:
People of your type has done more than this and was humbled by USA

Mention any country that as treating USA and they were humbled?
This is the mighty Russia sir, let wait and see

IbrahimDamola:
In more than 2 decades of years of my life, I have never seen an Ibo Muslim.

They only exist in skulls of we Yoruba and almajiri Muslims who want to paint to Ibos with Islamic terrorism brush.

In 2015, I remember how we yoruba Muslims were desperately begging Shekau to speak Ibo in his video so that we can claim christian Ibo are behind boko haram in order to discredit GEJ.

U aare only one begging ooo. Don't use u as the base for the rest

Shelumiel:
Oga, stop being shallow and listen. What this woman is doing is what the average Israeli does on a daily basis; there is nothing special here . Or is she going into the battlefield empty handed?

I can't believe someone in this country can still say something like this. It shows how degenerated ur brain is.

Wow nice post
Thanks for enlighten us

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said earlier this week that China would “comprehensively and strictly” enforce the U.N. resolution but in a statement recognized his country’s “traditional economic bond” with North Korea.

Wang made the point of "affirming" Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s statement from earlier this month in which the top U.S. diplomat said American policy did not seek regime change, the regime’s collapse, an accelerated reunification of the Korean peninsula or an American invasion.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/10/why-china-will-not-isolate-north-korea-241504

“There’s a significant amount of revenue sources probably still out there beyond just sort of what we’re looking at in, say, the licit goods side that’s largely with China,” he said.

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Such trade gives the North Korean regime the hard currency it needs to sustain it nuclear activities, even after the recent U.N. sanctions promise to cut off about one-third of the $3 billion in revenue it earns in legitimate goods exports.

China was successful in watering down the U.N. resolution, Einhorn suggested, by pushing back on U.S. demands to cut their oil shipments.

He said China also likely dissented fromagainst proposals to expel North Korean workers altogether and to abandon any existing joint business ventures. Instead, the resolution only goes as far as prohibiting countries from hiring additional North Korean nationals and entering into new or expanded business joint ventures.

China agreed to cut off imports of North Korean coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood, but it was already tapering purchases on those items based on a U.N. resolution it agreed to at the end of last November. That action capped the amount of North Korean coal China and other U.N. members could buy but didn't eliminate imports altogether.

Since the previous resolution went into effect on Nov. 30 and through the end of January, China imported about $218 million worth of North Korean coal, according to a South Korean energy analyst, who requested not to be named because of classified work he does for the South Korean government.

As of Feb. 19, China had already halted all shipments of coal from North Korea, the analyst said.

Congress could further squeeze China by imposing so-called secondary sanctions to cut off the nation's financial institutions from the U.S. financial system.

Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) introduced legislation (S. 1591) in July to toughen efforts to sanction banks that allow North Korea to continue sanctioned business activities.

But unilateral action to hit China may compromise any efforts to further sanction North Korea through international cooperation.

"We've begun to go after these [Chinese] entities, but there's always a reluctance there," said Einhorn. "On the one hand, you have to threaten China that we're going to be serious about going after their entities. On the other hand, we need Chinese cooperation. We needed the Chinese cooperation to get that resolution adopted. And even though it's not as strong a resolution as the U.S. had hoped for, it's still a pretty strong step forward."President Donald Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” over its nuclear threat, but China, which sells billions in fuel and food to North Korea, is far better positioned to weaken its volatile neighbor without firing a single missile.

Even as a global nuclear crisis heats up, there’s scant evidence China is willing to impose the major economic measures necessary to cripple Pyongyang — despite Trump’s insistence Thursday that “it do a lot more.”

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“China is not willing to put the kind of regime threat pressure that we think is necessary because they don’t want to cause a Korean collapse,” said Joseph DeThomas, a former U.S. diplomat who specialized in sanctions and non-proliferation issues.

The prospect of millions of refugees pouring into China, economic instability in its northern provinces and a possible war on the Korean peninsula are more pressing realities for Beijing than North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons.

China agreed this week to a United Nations resolution prohibiting the purchase of some of North Korea’s major exports — coal, iron ore, seafood and other items. Yet the legitimate and illicit trade that flows back and forth across the Yalu River every day is a stark reminder that China’s view of the problem differs greatly from that of the U.S.

“I think they’re genuinely unhappy with the North Koreans, genuinely want to penalize

for the increase in trade flows, because China has redacted product-specific data since January, said Chris Rogers, a research analyst at Panjiva.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said earlier this week that China would “comprehensively and strictly” enforce the U.N. resolution but in a statement recognized his country’s “traditional economic bond” with North Korea.

Wang made the point of "affirming" Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s statement from earlier this month in which the top U.S. diplomat said American policy did not seek regime change, the regime’s collapse, an accelerated reunification of the Korean peninsula or an American invasion.

China’s recent agreement at the U.N. to cut off certain imports from North Korea may further squelch the flow of hard currency going into the country, but Pyongyang will likely continue to earn revenue from legitimate trade with China as well as its illicit activities.

“If you want to go down the road of economic pressure, China is the card you have to play because China has 90 percent of their trade; it’s their sole source of oil, basically all their illicit trade goes through China,” said DeThomas, who now teaches at Penn State University.

For example, China imported about $640 million worth of North Korean apparel in 2016, which is second only to coal in terms of what it imports from its neighbor. The latest U.N. sanctions don’t place restrictions on exports of apparel and textiles. Chinese companies also supported North Korea’s apparel industry with exports of $175 million of fabric across the border, according to data culled by Panjiva.

North Korea also takes in foreign money via the wages its laborers earn in foreign countries. A large proportion of the estimated 100,000 North Koreans working abroad are employed in China. Over all, wages remitted from North Korean workers in other countries add a furthernother $300 million to $600 million to North Korea’s coffers, said Troy Stangarone, senior director at the Korea Economic Institute of America. A State Department spokeswoman said today it was pressuring other countries to reduce the number of North Korean guest workers.

North Korea also earns revenue through illicit channels such as online gambling operations and illegal arms sales to the Syrian government — each of which brings in $1 billion income, Stangarone said.

Why China won't isolate North Korea
China, which sells billions in fuel and food to North Korea, is far better positioned than the U.S. to weaken its volatile neighbor without firing a single missile.
By ADAM BEHSUDI 08/10/2017 06:17 PM EDT Updated 08/11/2017 02:31 PM EDT

Chinese paramilitary policemen build a fence near North Korean and Chinese national flags at a crossing in the Chinese border town of Tumen in December 2012. Even as a global nuclear crisis heats up, there’s scant evidence China is willing to impose the major economic measures necessary to cripple Pyongyang.
President Donald Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” over its nuclear threat, but China, which sells billions in fuel and food to North Korea, is far better positioned to weaken its volatile neighbor without firing a single missile.

Even as a global nuclear crisis heats up, there’s scant evidence China is willing to impose the major economic measures necessary to cripple Pyongyang — despite Trump’s insistence Thursday that “it do a lot more.”

Story Continued Below

“China is not willing to put the kind of regime threat pressure that we think is necessary because they don’t want to cause a Korean collapse,” said Joseph DeThomas, a former U.S. diplomat who specialized in sanctions and non-proliferation issues.

The prospect of millions of refugees pouring into China, economic instability in its northern provinces and a possible war on the Korean peninsula are more pressing realities for Beijing than North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons.

China agreed this week to a United Nations resolution prohibiting the purchase of some of North Korea’s major exports — coal, iron ore, seafood and other items. Yet the legitimate and illicit trade that flows back and forth across the Yalu River every day is a stark reminder that China’s view of the problem differs greatly from the U.S.

“I think they’re genuinely unhappy with the North Koreans, genuinely want to penalize them and are prepared to join with the U.S. in doing that — but there’s a limit to how far they want to go,” said Robert Einhorn, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who previously served as special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control at the State Department.


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Trump showed impatience with such limits, however, in remarks from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.J.

“We lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year on trade with China,” he said. “They know how I feel. It’s not going to continue like that. But if China helps us, I feel a lot differently toward trade, a lot differently toward trade.”

The president has threatened tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports and has come close to ordering an investigation into Beijing’s intellectual property rights violations that could lead to more trade restrictions. However, the latest trade action alleged violations of U.S. intellectual property rights and forced technology transfers against China’s was put off as the U.S. recently sought China’s support for sanctions at the U.N.

But Beijing would be hard pressed to curtail its exports of oil, vehicles, electronics and food that serve to prop up the North Korean economy, and by extension, the Kim Jong -Uun regime and its nuclear aspirations.

“China is sort of there everywhere economically for North Korea,” said DeThomas. “They’re on the one hand the key and the other hand the lock.”

Although North Korea has become an increasingly ostracized nation over the years, China’s support for the regime through trade remains strong. In the second quarter of 2017, China exported $934 million worth of goods, compared to $721 million in the first quarter of the year. Exports are also up 17 percent from the same period last year, according to Chinese data collected by Panjiva, a trade analysis firm.

It’s unclear what types of goods account

Australia is a paper weight not worth mentioning.

When Russia invaded Ukraine what did US do?

When Russia intervened in Syria to destabilise US plans what did US do?

When Russia invaded Georgia and the Russian Black Sea Fleet blockaded the Georgian coast, what did the US do?? Except issue mundane rhetorics. Their usual talk talk on CNN and no action.

See, the Americans have grown soft, they are not ready to stomach a direct military confrontation with an enemy who has the capacity to strike back.

They have been behaving like bullies all this while, attacking and invading countries without the capacity to strike back.

The sole reason we have North Korea today is because of China. It was the Chinese army that assisted North Korea to drive back the US and South Korean forces that has already defeated the North Korean forces and almost pushed them into China.

China mobilised more than a million troops within the twinkle of an eye, to the surprise of US and South Korea and started pushing them back, reclaiming lost territories back to North Korea until the present 38th parallel was achieved and all parties dug into their present positions till this day!

As it happened during the Korean war, China will definitely enter the battle on the side of North Korea as failing to do that will mean the collapse of North Korea and Americans at their very border.

Countries only react when their strategic interests are threatened. China does not want US at her border, same with Russia that was why Russia reacted swiftly to Ukraine when US started getting over ambitious with them. China will do same here.

North Korea has the capacity to militarily strike strike back at US, it's bases in the region, and also it's allies in that region, that is why the US is back to its usual mouth mouth talk. They won't attack North Korea.

South Korea also does not have the mind to do the dirty job for the Americans. They have grown fat and successful and not ready to have Seoul which is very close to North Korea to be in ruins. North Korea has thousands of standby artillery directed at Seoul (South Korea), ready to start firing at any instant.

US has also not attacked Iran till date because it knows Iran also have some capabilities to strike US bases and allies in the middle East. And create serious oil crises.

Nuclear weapons are more of strategic weapons and not tactical. Although I know some nuclear weapons are designed as tactical and dubbed same, but nuclear power on the face value is mainly a strategic power. Why did the US not use them against China during the Korean war at a time China itself was not yet a nuclear power??

US is just making noise. North Korea as a nuclear power has come to stay, and all their talk is not going to change that. They are just talking for talking sake.

Mazeltovscotty:
kid, there is nothing like bait here. Even China that have been playing catch up game will always be decades behind US so how much more is north korea.
Only that your analysis is always dumb.
Well I hardly quote people like you bcus most of u started following foreign politics when President Obama came to power but for the sake of others. Russia and North korea will bomb america to stone age and America will nt respond? If this statement was uttered by a Russian general then it is either the general is dumb and a war green horn just as you are or he just feel like rolling out comedy skit words for video shooting. Just listen to yourself. And for the soviet union, well consider it as a war trophy for US.

Bro u really tried. Here is what u don't know-1 which war did us ever fight on their own and won non Korea war they lost, ww11 against Japan dey lost if not of their atomic bomb they built, Iraq war dey lost They only really on heavy weapons and mass destruction weapons.
2 they can't use military action on Korea because doing that u will have to face China and mother Russia to war which all us and its allies can't face them. U can read on Korea war to know more about what am saying

drakeli:
You don see US dey do parade dey display their arsenal like that? Na only China, and North Korea. I have never even seen anyone of them fight a war since I have been on planet earth.�Na empty drum dey make the loudest noise.

Bro even us self dey do military parade, u can Google it Bro. Every nation do military parade even Nigeria

psucc:
Are you sure they are Nigerian soldiers or Boko Haram boys?

One can't distinguished since this is a routine in Islam Praying with arms at arm's length.

Why are u people like these? Let the Nigeria army remove all Muslim soldiers from the north and see whether boko haram will not be knocking at ur door in the next 24hours

If Islam is a terror religion then boko haram killing for Islam should not be north where over ninety percent of its population are Muslims, it should be south especially the South south where Muslims are not that much.

Let's think beyond what the media what us to think about

Thanks for this blessed message of urs
Now people who believe Israel,USA and Britain are the real enemies not the Muslims

strangleyo:
Let's get this in perspective, if the US or UK armies regarded human life in the same sense that the Nigeria army does (Ijaw massacre as an example), Afghanistan would today be a parking lot.

Nigeria's army is simply incompetent. They are badly trained, they are badly equipped, and they have no moral authority.

And their equipment is a joke. For a country with such a large shore as ours, we don't even have a proper naval fleet. Piracy is highest around our coast only 2nd to Somalia's.

All in all. Top 5, I doubt it.

I doubt we could even raise an army to stop an invasion. We're so disorganized.

As a nation we don't even know how many people live within our borders.

U don't know what u are saying. The best amry for peace keeping in Africa is the Nigeria amry, they did well in Mali serria lone and Liberia let not forget about Gambia. It is not easy for a country to end terrorism and ethical battles like that ,even the mighty USA ,Britain, France and Russia still have terrorism issues are u now saying there army's are not well equipped or trained