but that prediction is remarkably accurate. president trump has thrown grenades in the health care system and with no replacement, strategy or solution. various lists have been compiled on day one of the administration. label china a currency ma membershmanip late for. mostly he was talk without much action. and on september 3rd, he tweeted that the u.s. was considering stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. this was obviously a dig at china and massive threat to the global economic system, it would
two nuclear powers who both seem increasingly credible in their threats to use catastrophically powerful weapons against each other. today north korea s foreign minister said that president trump s warning to his country amounted to a declaration of war and that seems serious stuff. joining us for reaction in new york is daniel heninger, deputy editorial page of wall street journal. dan, if i could start with you. you believe that kim jong un is finally starting to feel isolated. why do you say that? i think for a couple of reasons, dana. for one, things have happened in the last few weeks. the united states last week announced that it was raising sanctions against north korea, which to say secretary of state mnuchin announced they would not do financial business with any country doing business with the north koreans. that was a significant increase in the level of sanctions and that happened simultaneous with the chinese, at least since june
increa increasi increasingly credible in their ability to use weapons against each other. today the foreign minister said president trump s warnings amounted to a declaration of war. that s serious stuff. joining us is daniel headinger. and marie heart and john. if i could start with you, you believe kim jong-un is finally starting to feel isolated. why do you say that? i think for a couple of reasons, dana p things have happened in the last few weeks. the united states last week announced that it was raising sanctions against north korea, which is to say secretary of state minnesota announced they would not do business with any country doing business with the north koreans. that was significant in the level of sanctions. that happened simultaneous with the chinese which youing after
think there is still room for dialogue. the north koreans are on a very predictable trajectory. they ve been pursuing this for 20 years through kim l. sung, who is the grandfather. north korea is a family-owned country. so what they re doing, particularly with this that s quite logical on the heels of their six and long-anticipated underground tests, larger than any previous. but they would also want to convey their operational capability with a missile. whether or not they can marry the two, that remains to be seen, but as barbara starr alluded, it almost doesn t matter because we have to assume they can. general, president trump tweeted a couple days ago, quote, the united states is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea, unquote. as you well know, china is the
inexplicably. there was another threat the president made say he is considering stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. that was talking about china who is north korea s biggest trading partner and ours too. $650 billion of trade with china in the year. that seems to be pretty unrealistic. there is room for more sanctions but stopping all trade with china? china has been a huge proble problem. absolutely. 90% of north korea s trade is with china. they do these piecemeal things. if we care about keeping, constraining them, we have to do secondary sections and it s going to hurt everybody. ultimately the administration would be willing to accept north korea s nuclear weapons power. what they would not be willing to accept nor should they is the