U.S. President Barack Obama urged China on Sunday to use its influence to rein in North Korea instead of "turning a blind eye" to its nuclear defiance, and warned of tighter sanctions if the reclusive state goes ahead with a rocket launch next month.
"North Korea will achieve nothing by threats or provocations," a stern-faced Obama said after a tour of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas resonant with echoes of the Cold War.
Oh contraire', my president. Iran has proven that threats achieve quite a lot. Indeed, Iran's lesson is that President Obama should have told China that if North Korea attacks South Korea, Japan, or America again, we will strike China. Quite a lot of people here go along with that logic, after all.
