but in exchange north korea has to curtail, degrade their nuclear and their missile cape canability, especially if their potential ability which is happening to reach the united states. i think there s a trade off there. rick, you re shaking your head no way. a couple points. one, i agree with the ambassador richardson. i think there s more we could be doing. we ve got to get newicters in, that s true. i m not a fan of unilateral sanctions. i think they never work except in the case of banking sanctions. we have yet to try banking sanctions on the country of china -ing. not to interrupt you, you were shaking your head in response to accepting them having nuclear capabilities. that was my second point. i don t think we should ever accept north korea as a nuclear
now, increasing their business with the iranians. what the north koreans are learning, you can get around the sanctions. the evidence shows in the first five months of this year alone, we ve had trade increase 40% between north korea and china, iron ore specifically is up over 200% trade, this is a significant problem. we already know the north koreans have enough material, plutonium and uranium to make more than a few bombs, more than a few nukes. they have tested 11 times this year. we need to throw down resolutions at the security council that tighten up the sanctions immediately on iron ore. i d say the u.s. congress needs to implement banking sanctions on china, not an specific companies. because we know once you try to sanction company a, then company b pops up.
so you can t just do the companies. you have to go larger to the countries. let s crack down, let s do unilateral banking sanctions on the chinese. they have increased their trade with north korea. they re not being honest with us. let s crack down. neil: all right, rick. good seeing you. they re not bad ideas. we have the president pressing republicans to pass the healthcare bill. he s applying the pressure to rand paul. he s rejecting the notion of getting a procedural vote on pro seeding with this. he s next. at one point, i did change to a different company with car insurance, and i was not happy with the customer service. we have switched back over and we feel like we re back home now. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you re a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children, and that they can be protected.
the dpr care think that might be something to get their attention. we need to be able to get this relationship to say this is a priority. we are clearly at risk, china is not at risk. the north koreans are not going to point the missile at china and so, we need to be able to tell them in a very clear way that this is an important issue for us and all other issues fall as a secondary issue. i think trump, has been willing to intermingle trade policies with foreign policy. he needs to come back strong and i would suggest influencing banking sanctions on the country of china. that is a problem because china has an reluctance thus far to impose any kind of economic sanctions and the problem here really that china s main priority is china. and it does in fact implement any kind of sanctions on north korea. one of its many fears or
concerns you can call it is that millions of north koreans will then descend into china. they do not want that. they do not want that but the united states needs to ask what is in the united states interest. i m not a big fan of unilateral sanctions. i do not think they work. i think we need to have international sanctions for the un security council however, unilateral banking sanctions by the united states with because most countries utilized the us banking system and if we said, to the chinese that you can either continue your trade with the north koreans, we know that the trade has increased dramatically this year. so you can continue to do that or you can have access to the us banking system. i think they would quickly change their mind. point to note, this is not without aim for us. somehow having banking