In The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 5, 2017, the Chinese and Russia United Nations representatives continue to supply North Korea with all the support required to continue ballistic missile provocations within the world. Of course, Russia and China have the world blocked through continuing to allow North Korea to participate in trading revenues through exports along with oil supplies and military weapon parts.
Of course, the U.S. and European Union could increase pressure on North Korea's trading partners, including China, African nations and Russia, to enforce more robust implementation of existing sanctions.
But that will not happen, as it had not in the last Korean war. Russia's U.N. ambassador said his country would study the U.S. proposal but added that the history of council actions against Pyongyang has shown that "resolutions solely relying on sanctioning North Korea have not worked."
An overt attack on North Korea could ignite a war that could kill millions of people on the Korean Peninsula...and that military solution would be tragic on an unbelievable scale. Today, there are 28,000 U.S. troops in South Korea and they would be on the front lines of any military conflict.
Technical and funding challenges force the U.S. Defense Department to rely on Russian-manufactured rocket engines at least through the middle of the next decade (several years longer than originally anticipated). Other people familiar with the details said United Launch--a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co.--might have to extend the timeline as far out as 2028. The delay raises the question of whether the U.S. military will have to use more of the Russian engines amid tensions between the two nations.
With the U.S. Navy recently losing two military ships (due to personnel sleeping on board), perhaps the Dept. of Defense needs to sharpen its leadership capability to become combat ready once again...
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-urges-strong-u-n-response-on-north-korea-1504540129