Sen. John McCain, the top Republican in the Senate Armed Forces Committee, said Sunday it’s time to start chatting about a “regime change” in North Korea.
But, notably, the 74-year-old senator from Arizona failed to mention how the U.S. or anyone should go about tackling the change in a country that appears more unstable than Charlie Sheen.
As the world watches the Korean peninsula in preparation for Korean War 2.0, news of further military realignments, artillery shells and the U.S. standing “shoulder-to-shoulder” with South Korea become more ominous by the day.
And while McCain stressed the need for a regime change in the communist nation, he stopped short of recommending military action.
Instead, the former presidential candidate pleaded that China step up its sanction game to prevent a disaster for Seoul and the rest of the world.
“They could bring North Korea to its knees if they wanted to,” McCain said of the Chinese on CNN’s “State of The Union.”
And McCain couldn’t be more right. With the U.S. already enforcing tight sanctions on North Korea, added sanctions would do little. But China, North Korea’s closest ally, could essentially shut down the country.
It’s time for China to recognize any conflict on the Korean peninsula is not to its benefit. This war needs to end before it begins.
And it’s time for North Korea to go back to timeout. No one likes a bully.
