Kinzinger: Sanction China To Pressure North Korea

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO)  As the Trump administration continues to talk with Asian allies about North Korea, an Illinois congressman says China plays a role in any negotiations.

Calling it a “complicated dance of international foreign policy, U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Channahon), who serves in the military, says the U.S. has a number of options in dealing with North Korea, but pressuring China is the right step at this time.

“This is really a complicated maneuver going on. So you have three instruments of power that the U.S. has at play. You have an economic, a military and diplomatic instrument of power,” Kinzinger said Tuesday. “In order to have a credible diplomacy with an adversary, you have to back that up with a credible threat of military force as well as the ability to use your economic instrument of power. That’s were you can sanction banks in China that do business with North Korea. That’s where you can compel the Chinese through kind of give and take on some of these economic issues to say it is in your interest to hold, to rein in, North Korea. It’s in your economic interest to do it.”

Vice President Mike Pence is touring Asia and meeting with American allies. He said earlier on Tuesday that in dealing with North Korea, “all options are on the table.”​

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