Jeff Merkley: Trump’s ‘Beating the War Drum’ and ‘Trying to Convert that into Applying Pressure’ on N. Korea

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MERKLEY: “What they’re doing is beating the war drum and then trying to convert that into China applying pressure to end the nuclear program in North Korea. But just freezing the program is not enough for the administration. The administration has said they must eliminate their nuclear weapons. That is a very difficult thing to force a nation to do. So the question is, how do you succeed in doing that? And that’s where both the war drums and the Chinese pressure don’t ultimately result in a coherent sense of how you get to that goal.”