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enhanced_deficit
08-29-2017, 09:06 PM
Trump's art of the bluff seems to have misfired as NK launched missile over Japan.
Nicky Haley was working on another strongly worded warning to NK at the UN

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2 hours ago - President Donald Trump says all options are on the table after North Korea launched ballistic missiles over Japan.






Trump's 'fire and fury' policy on North Korea has 'crashed and burned': Former State Department official (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/trumps-north-korea-policy-has-crashed-and-burned-former-state-dept-official.html)



North Korea's missile firing is a clear sign that U.S. policy isn't working, national security and foreign policy strategist Joel Rubin told CNBC.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that "all options are on the table" in response to North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile that passed over Japan.
"We really need to get into the diplomatic track more aggressively than we have been so far," Rubin said.


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"This is North Korea doing what North Korea often does. However, what's different this time is that they have technical capacity that many analysts did not think they were going to achieve so quickly."
He called the policy of the last 15 years "failed" and said there needs to be a broader diplomatic policy than just asking China to intervene.
John Merrill, former chief of the Northeast Asia division of the bureau of intelligence and research at the State Department, said North Korea is getting frustrated with U.S. policy, which is based entirely on sanctions.
"People sometimes forget that sanctions carried to an extreme can sometimes get us into real trouble," he told "Closing Bell," pointing to the oil and scrap metal embargo on Japan in the early 1940s.

enhanced_deficit
08-29-2017, 09:39 PM
He was put on the spot in that press conf where quick success was guaranteed one way or the other.

"We'll be either very very successfull quickly or we'll be very very successfull in another way quickly"

Q. Any progress on the diplomatic backchannels?
A. Well, we don't wan't to talk about progress, we don't want to talk about backchannels


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