Gordon Chang: It Looks Like China Is Weaponizing North Korea

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CHANG: “Clearly the North Koreans already have three missiles that can hit the lower 48 states: Taepodong, KN-08, KN-14. They haven’t been tested or tested at full range, but we also know they have been able to put a nuke on an intermediate range missile. So, I agree with the admiral they are about a year away. But there's a lot that the United States hasn't tried up till now. We’ve tried a lot of things, but the one thing we haven’t tired is really to impose costs on China so that China has an incentive to help us. The Trump Administration started doing that last week with those symbolic sanctions that the Treasury imposed on Thursday and the arms sale. But we need to ramp that up. And by the way, Joe, we need to ask China a question in public. That missile we saw yesterday, that was launched from a Chinese transporter erector launcher. We need to ask Beijing why all this Chinese and Chinese-looking equipment is showing up in North Korea’s inventory. Because it does look like China is weaponizing North Korea.”