<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="center">Following North Korea&rsquo;s recent warhead launch from a submarine, which was the country&rsquo;s longest flight to date, Obama has finally issued a statement condemning the communist regime&rsquo;s nuclear tests.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After the newest launch of the nuclear warhead, North Korea said that it was designed to mount to a ballistic missile.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&#8220;As North Korea has publicly said nuclear warheads have been standardized and customized to mount on ballistic missiles, we should keep in mind that North Korea&#8217;s nuclear missiles are a realistic, imminent threat targeting us, not a simple threat for negotiations,&#8221; said South Korea&#8217;s President Park Geun-hye.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So how is the White House going to deal with this? Obama said his administration would be introducing new sanctions &#8220;to demonstrate to North Korea that there are consequences to its unlawful and dangerous actions.&#8221; ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, the country has launch several threatening tests prior to this major one and is finally now being called out by the president.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&#8220;To be clear, the United States does not, and never will, accept North Korea as a nuclear state,&#8221; said Obama. &#8220;Far from achieving its stated national security and economic development goals, North Korea&#8217;s provocative and destabilizing actions have instead served to isolate and impoverish its people through its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile capabilities.&#8221; ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Isn&rsquo;t this a little too late? The first test was conducted in 2006, then another in 2009 and 2013. Now in 2016, the country has completed two nuclear weapon tests.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Obama had a meeting with world leaders from Asia Friday morning where they discussed North Korea&rsquo;s nuclear program. The US president said he spoke with both the South Korean ;President Park Geun-Hye and Japanese ;Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and promised an &#8220;unshakable U.S. commitment to take necessary steps to defend our allies in the region.&#8221;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But because of North Korea&rsquo;s biggest trading ally China, it isn&rsquo;t going to be easy to penalize North Korea.  ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">China is the communist country&rsquo;s chief economic and diplomatic partner and has formerly made it clear that they won&rsquo;t be condemning or even getting involved.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">China is continuing this approach following the recent nuclear test. &ldquo;The crux of the Korean nuclear issue lies not in China but in the U.S. as this issue is nothing but conflict between the DPRK and the U.S.,&#8221; said Hua Chunying, China Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Monday. &#8220;It has been repeatedly proven that sanctions themselves cannot solve this problem. Any unilateral action that aims to pursue selfish gains can only lead to a dead end.&#8221;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chunying then recommended solving this issue through &#8220;dialogue and consultation.&#8221;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But, we need stronger leadership to cleverly come up with a solution to this problem. Trump has previously stated that giving more pressure to China could be the answer. &#8220;I would speak to him (North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un,) I would have no problem speaking to him,&#8221; ;said Trump to Reuters. &#8220;At the same time I would put a lot of pressure on China because economically we have tremendous power over China. China can solve that problem with one meeting or one phone call.&rdquo;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> This is a ludicrous statement by Obama. North Korea has a long history of nuclear testing and more recently ballistic missile testing. In his seven years as President, Obama has done nothing to stop their progress, and his drawing a line in the sand is an empty gesture.</p>
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