US President Donald Trump Needs to Do Better than Tweeting, to Deal with North Korea

• The US planned to use China to pressure the North Korea to make amends regarding the use of the nuclear missile
• Followed by the death of American Student, Trump acquitted China from the responsibility of pressurizing North Korea to make amends
• The viable option for the US is if Congress exercises its foreign policies oversight responsibilities by conducting a hearing on the Trump's North Korea policy

Washington, July 2, 2017: Since Donald Trump has taken the seat as America's President, the only threat to America is North Korea which has threatened to launch a fully fledged nuclear war. The report is based on the views presented to thehill.com by Gregory J. Wallance, who is a writer, lawyer, former federal prosecutor, serving as assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1979 to 1985.

Many people feel Trump did a positive thing by addressing North Korea as a threat. Further, the US has planned to use China to pressure the North Korea to make amends regarding the use of nuclear missile because China is North Korea's major trading partner. In order to reduce trade exports from China to North Korea, US has promised China with better trading terms.

On June 21, 2017, Trump tweeted, "While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!" as a result of the death of an American college student who was jailed in North Korea who returned to the US in a coma.

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Soon after his tweet, he acquitted China from the responsibility of pressurizing North Korea to make amends which was taken by China in the best possible way. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping was already unwilling to put pressure on North Korea can say that they tried their best.

Now the US is left with only two options: First is to launch a strike towards North Korea's missile installations and face retaliation by North Korea resulting in a lot of deaths and the second is likely to wait till the time North Korea developing intercontinental ballistic missiles and that would give them the edge.

So, the viable option for the US is if Congress exercises its foreign policies oversight responsibilities by conducting a hearing on the Donald Trump's North Korea policy.

A similar model was enacted in 1966 regarding Senate foreign relations committee's hearings on Vietnam. It was done because, despite the late former President Lyndon B. Johnson's assessments towards the Vietnam War, they were already losing so many American soldiers.

Conducting hearings like these would require the Trump administration to explain their policy and find better alternatives to actually make China pressurize North Korea and while the 1966 hearings were too late, Donald Trump's administration still have time to retrace their steps towards the correct path and to make actual policy amendments rather than tweeting about the situation.

– summarised by Sumit Balodi of NewsGram. Twitter: @sumit_balodi