WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is sending President Barack Obama legislation that aims to punish North Korea for pushing ahead with its nuclear weapons program.
House Republicans and Democrats joined together Friday and overwhelmingly agreed to slap Pyongyang with more stringent sanctions. The 408-2 vote came after North Korea launched a rocket carrying a satellite into space and conducted its fourth nuclear test.
The legislation passed the Senate earlier this week.
The White House has agreed on the need for tougher sanctions.
The goal of the legislation is to starve Pyongyang of the money it needs for the development of miniaturized nuclear warheads and the long-range missiles required to deliver them.
The legislation also authorizes $50 million to transmit radio broadcasts into North Korea, purchase communications equipment and support humanitarian assistance programs.
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Pointless unless China agrees as well.
We should just simultaneously conduct cruise missile strikes on the following:
- NK’s missile manufacturing sites
- NK’s missile launch sites
- The command and control facilities for the field artillery sites north of the DMZ
- The building housing the headquarters of the NK Communist Party
- The little fat guy’s personal residence.
Then about six hours later we should demand the unconditional surrender of NK, and their immediate re-integration with South Korea.
Luckily, Obama is President, not you.
Trump will build a wall around North Korea and make Kim Jong-un pay for it…
I have seen news reports this morning about China’s willingness to support stronger U.N. Sanctions. Not sure what that means for this particular bill’s ability to do anything given that Congress can only legislate what we do to NK