Orangutan loves Rockets...

Trump: China's North Korea envoy 'had no impact on Little Rocket Man'

By LOUIS NELSON

President Donald Trump said Thursday that China’s recently returned envoy to North Korea “seems to have had no impact on” Kim Jong Un, questioning online why North Koreans tolerate their nation’s poor standard of living.

“The Chinese Envoy, who just returned from North Korea, seems to have had no impact on Little Rocket Man,” Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to Kim by the nickname he has pinned on him. “Hard to believe his people, and the military, put up with living in such horrible conditions. Russia and China condemned the launch.”

North Korea fired a ballistic missile Tuesday that traveled more than 600 miles, its first launch in more than two months. The Kim regime claimed that its Tuesday test shows its missiles capable of striking the entire continental U.S. The missile reached an altitude of 2,800 miles, the highest any North Korean missile has climbed, and landed in the Sea of Japan, within the Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

The Kim regime has test fired 15 missiles thus far in 2017 and conducted its sixth underground nuclear test last September, the communist nation’s most powerful nuclear test to date.

Unlike his predecessors, who have sought mostly to ignore and downplay North Korea, Trump has ratcheted up his rhetoric directed towards the repressive communist regime. He has threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” should it continue its provocations, and has pointedly refused to take military action against the Kim regime off the table.

Despite his stated willingness to adopt a military strategy, Trump thus far has mostly relied on the same tactic of attempting to squeeze North Korea by leveling increasingly stringent economic sanctions against it. The president has also sought the help of China, North Korea's chief international trade partner and patron on the world stage, in reigning in the Kim regime's bellicose activity, a strategy past presidents have attempted as well and one that has thus far shown little in the way of results for Trump.