Article snippet: Posted at 7:00 pm on July 5, 2017 by streiff In the aftermath of the North Korean ICBM launch on July 4, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. Full Transcript. Highlights. Key takeaway here is the formulation “quickly closing off the possibility of a diplomatic solution.” This is not the kind of language the UNSC is used to hearing. My personal belief is that this is accurate. The moment a North Korean ICBM shows the potential to range the West Coast I believe we are at war. This is where the speech takes an unexpected turn. This will represent serious, regime endangering sanctions and the UNSC will either have to go on record as supporting the outlaw clique in Pyongyang or the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Hinting at trade sanctions against nations trading with North Korea in violation of UN sanctions was a significant upping of the ante but it got better: It isn’t every day that a permanent member of the UN Security Council gets called out as a sanctions buster. This is the first time since 1953 that the United States has taken North Korea seriously. By making it clear that we will put nations in the position of either supporting painful sanctions against North Korea or being held responsible for North Korea’s nuclear and ICBM programs, this is sending a very intense message. Telling the world that we are done with sanctioning a handful of people and organizations for busting sanctions an... Link to the full article to read more