PIERS MORGAN: China could get rid of Kim Jong-un with one simple act AND the minimum loss of life, so why won’t they bring the madman in their backyard to heel?

UK Daily Mail

"Right now, President Trump is not the problem, as his many detractors persist in suggesting. He is neither doing nor saying much different to any of his predecessors on this issue.

No, President Xi is the problem. He has the power to solve this crisis once and for all. . ."

 . . . "A staggering 90% of all North Korea’s trade is done with China.

"China has thus become the great enabler of the world’s most despotic 
regime.

"It is Chinese money that pays for much of North Korea’s military and it is therefore Chinese money that de facto fuels North Korea’s nuclear 
weapons program.

"China’s President Xi is said to be ‘considering’ various economic 
punishments against North Korea that go beyond the sanctions, like banning the estimated 100,000 North Korean labourers currently working overseas or cutting North Korea’s lucrative exports like textiles and clothing.

"But if Xi really wants to strangle Jong-un’s nuclear aspirations then he 
should cut off his crude oil supply.

"No modern military can function without oil; it is the very lifeblood of any
 armed force." . . .  Read more.