UN SANCTIONS AGAINST NORTH KOREA AND THE EMPTY THREATS
The reclusive Pyongyang regime with its threats to use nuclear missiles will remain a conundrum the UN has to solve in this century. When the UN Security Council imposed more sanctions on the Pariah state following two ballistic intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July, it only drew more provocative war mongering propaganda from its leader Kim Jong-un. As always the US was the architect of these sanctions including banning $ 1 billion in exports. It has been an escalation of sharp expletives between Trump and Kim Jong-un. This was after the North Korean leader threatened to hit the US pacific territory of Guam. In his usual unchecked style of talking, Trump responded by warning North Korea if it dared to attack, the reprisals would be face fury and fire. Is the world about to see a nuclear war between the two countries? I don’t think any of the two leaders would wish to go in the canals of history to have triggered such a war in this era. North Korea fully un...