CNN: Trump: North Korea is China's problem to fix
New York (CNN)Donald Trump says he's sick and tired of the United States acting as the world's policeman.
The day after North Korea claimed that it had conducted its first-ever successful hydrogen bomb test, the Republican presidential front-runner pointed the finger at China. His message: Pyongyang is Beijing's problem to fix.
"China should solve that problem and we should put pressure on China to solve the problem," Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" Wednesday at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. "If they don't solve that problem, we should be very tough on them on trade -- meaning, start charging them tax or start cutting them off. You'd have China collapse in about two minutes."
Trump also demanded on Wednesday that South Korea pay up. The United States has thousands of troops stationed in South Korea, which has been in a state of armistice with North Korea since the 1950s.
Update #1: Trump says South Korea pays 'peanuts' for U.S. troop presence -- Reuters
Update #2: Donald Trump: About time that China gets involved with the North Korea problem -- Washington Times
WNU Editor: Never a dull day with Donald Trump. On a side note .... my Russian contacts first became interest in Donald Trump in September .... but my Chinese contacts are only starting to ask questions about him now. That tells me that they are now taking Donald Trump seriously, and will start to dedicate the time and focus to formulate and think-out strategies and policies on how to deal with him should he become President. On a humorous note .... I would give anything right now to read the psychological profile that they must have of him right now. I suspect that it is rich with adjectives. :)
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