Trump is 'very disappointed' in China for not controlling North Korea
President Trump slammed China for failing to shutter North Korean nuclear ambitions in a pair of tweets Saturday evening:
His comments come one day after Pyongyang tested its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which U.S. analysts determined could theoretically strike the western half of the continental United States depending on the weight of the missile load.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.