NIKKI ON NORTH KOREA – AT 10:52 A.M. ET:  Our superlative UN ambassador lays it on the line before the "international community."  I wish we had a hundred Nikkis in the State Department:  From Fox: 

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Monday asked the body’s Security Council to impose the strongest possible sanctions against North Korea in response to the rogue nation’s most recent nuclear test, saying “the time for half measures … is over.”

Haley spoke at U.N. headquarters in New York a day after North Korea claimed to have conducted an underground test on a hydrogen bomb.

It was the country’s sixth such test, following five previous ones on a nuclear warhead and recent launches of inter-continental missiles to land such weapons on foreign soil.

“We cannot kick this can down the road any longer,” said Halley at a special U.N. meeting convened after the weapon test overnight Saturday.

North Korea is “begging for war,” she also said Sunday. “The time for half measures by the Security Council is over.”

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And like Trump and other top administration officials, Haley also said the U.S. intends to impose economic sanctions on countries that do business with North Korea.

COMMENT:  Those sanctions will especially affect China, North Korea's largest trading partner.  Will China honor the sanctions?  If they don't, what do we do then?  Will Russia?

Imposing sanctions is one thing.  Getting them to work is quite another.  Nation sanctions are fine, but they must be joined by a credible threat of force, which means in part a major military buildup.

September 4, 2017