[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7833]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 CONVINCE CHINA TO REIN IN NORTH KOREA

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, like a character out of Looney Tunes, 
the incorrigible little Kim of North Korea and his minions can't stop 
rattling their sabers.
  New satellite images show a prolonged and heightened level of 
activity at North Korea's underground nuclear site. Since coming into 
power, little Kim has continually defied U.N. sanctions and increased 
testing of missiles and nuclear weapons.
  Just this last weekend, North Korea illegally launched yet another 
menacing ballistic missile. North Korea plans to develop submarines 
from which to launch these missiles towards the United States.
  Despite little Kim's Wile E. Coyote antics, the United States cannot 
underestimate the war-prone lunacy of Kim Jong-un. Even our old Deputy 
Secretary of State recently warned that little Kim's weapon 
capabilities have shown improvement within the past year, resulting in 
``unprecedented level of activity.''
  The last administration's appeasement policy of North Korea and its 
strategic patience has failed. The United States must cripple North 
Korea's regime with multiple sanctions. We must convince China that it 
is in their interest to rein in their puppet state of North Korea, and 
quickly deploy the new THAAD missile systems throughout the region and 
in Asia.
  And that is just the way it is, Mr. Speaker.

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