Anthony Ruggiero

2/ Sanctions against China (and likely Russia) were coming and the UNSC, which did not condemn the 7/4 test, agreed to a new resolution.

3/ China and Russia are playing a different game and accepted "tough" sanctions to avoid U.S. sanctions on their own companies.

4/ Elements of the Trump administration will now argue China and Russia need time to implement the resolution.

5/ That happens in every administration and is part of the failed NK sanctions policy that got us into this mess.

6/ The $1 billion number depends on China implementing the UN sanctions, we only have 11 years of evidence they will not do so.

7/ Chinese press in April floated support for a restriction on exports of oil to NK. It is not in the resolution. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-04-12/exclusive-north-korea-oil-imports-airline-among-possible-us-sanctions-targets-sources …

8/ Did China or Russia object to it? If the U.S. wanted a resolution, a restriction on oil exports should have been a negotiations redline.

9/ The resolution caps the number of overseas laborers, which is also worthless for two reasons.

10/ The majority of overseas laborers work in Russia and China, does anyone think they are going to follow this sanction?

11/ UNSCR 2321 said the revenue used by the laborers goes to the nuke/missile programs, and this resolution locks in $500M/year for NK.

12/ Good luck to State Dept trying to convince our allies to curb overseas laborers threatening U.S. sanctions, resolution makes that harder

13/ The resolution sanctioned North Koreans and North Korean companies, does the UNSC read its own reports?

16/ The only way to change NK's path is robust sanctions against China and others that aid NK. http://bit.ly/2welmPw 

Wow, I can see how come you have so few followers. Your talking out your a$$. This isn't about this being productive, it's that agreed

What do you propose? Huh? Ruggiero? You want to take out their Nuclear facilities in the mountains? Want to nuke Pyongyang? Fool.