From another site:
Yesterday the UN passed a law setting out guidelines for the arms trade. Presumably this was done so that the US can have a basis for condemning the sale of arms to its enemies. China and Russia abstained from the vote, Iran and North Korea and Syria voted against it. The rest of the world toed the line.
If a shooting war starts and China supplies NK, the US will complain to the UN that they are supporting a loony tyrant and must be sanctioned. The result would be throttling trade with China. A war with NK will certainly make it necessary to search every container for nukes before they get within range of the US or its allies—the nutter has nukes, has clearly stated that he will deliver them, but has no military means of doing so.
If this is the plan, then it’s a good one. There doesn’t appear to be any other way to rebalance trade with China—they continue to deal unfairly with the West and we are obligated to accept their imports without a tariff to adjust for their lower labour and environmental costs.
The corporatists have already made it clear that “Those jobs are never coming back” if they can help it. The only source of relief therefore is the militarists, who trump the corporatist due to the importance of security. If the trade imbalance can’t be sorted by negotiating with China, or putting up tariffs that adversely affect the multinationals, relief will have to come from stopping and searching the boats or imposing emergency war-time controls on imports, to prevent a nuke being shipped in a container.
A low intensity shooting war with the Norks might be just what the doctor ordered for our disastrous economies.