North Korea is U.S. problem but China’s ‘leverage’
China could control North Korea’s regime but doesn’t see the need to do so – at least not yet, says a U.S. senator.
“China could bring the North Korea regime to its knees,” Sen. Roger Wicker told American Family Radio this week, just days after the regime fired an ICBM that landed in Japan’s territorial waters after an impressive flight into space before re-entry.
The test-fired missile is a Hwasong-15 that is an updated version of an earlier missile, which suggests North Korea has improved its ability to strike the U.S. mainland with a nuclear-tipped missile, 38 North, a website that monitors and analyzes North Korea, reported after the launch.