Greg Sheridan argues that if the US and China fail to rein in North Korea, all hope of long-term strategic co-operation and stability is gone.
Greg Sheridan, foreign affairs journalist with the Australian, says Dictator Kim Jong-un has created the moment of truth for US President Donald Trump and Chinas Xi Jinping.
He also points out that if the Americans and Chinese cannot prevent this hyper-Stalinist gangster state from possessing the full range of nuclear weapons and missiles, and brazenly producing, as Pyongyang says, as many nukes as it wants to, then all hope of long-term strategic co-operation and stability is gone.
Mr Sheridan stresses that this is the moment when Washington and Beijing show us if the international system still has any order or coherence or consequence left.
Greg Sheridan is a foreign affairs journalist and commentator. He joined The Australian in 1984.
