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rsation about how to get China to 
join the United States in putting pressure on Pyongyang, according to a 
senior administration official who was present. The debate encapsulates 
America's struggle to come up with a strategy   based on 
sticks, carrots or a combination of both    to convince 
China to police its own backyard.As Kerry heads to East Asia for 
his first time as America's top diplomat, some progress has been made 
in convincing Beijing, North Korea's biggest benefactor, to start getting 
tough with its neighbor. The question is whether it will make a 
difference.North Korea's government agency said Thursday that it has "powerful 
striking means" on standby for a launch, amid speculation in Seoul and 
Washington that North Korea will test-fire a mid-range missile designed 
to reach the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. It 
was the latest warning from the North, which launched a long-range rocket 
in December and conducted an underground nuclear test in February.For years, 
Washington has been putting its hopes in Beijing to rein in the 
provocative behavior and combative rhetoric from North Korea. China has 
more leverage over the North than any other country, having massively boosted 
trade ties with the isolated regime in recent years and maintaining close 
military relations.But the U.S. has been frustrated by the reaction from 
a government that in many ways has different priorities. China, analysts 
and officials often say, f
n media, and school safety.By the time President Obamas gun task 
force was halfway finished with its work, it was clear that those 
other considerations were going to be window dressing at best. Gun control 
advocates, fearing that every day that passed from the raw emotions of 
the killings, made their hopes of getting a gun ban in place 
dwindle, decided to ditch what is complicated or innovative and fall back 
to old and largely failed ideas.While murder rates have dramatically declined 
in America over the past two decades, the phenomenon of mass killings 
has become a cultural sickness. Broken families, a corroded culture, the 
isolation and alienation of the Internet age, the inadequacy of mental health 
care and failing schools all play a part. These are matters of 
the heart and soul of a society, and these killings are terrible 
symptoms of chronic disease.Manchin was calling for something that would 
explore and address some of these root causes, but before the conversation 
could begin, the gun grabbers were already grabbing and the cold-dead-handers 
were already gripping tighter. The moment was gone. The attacks had begun, 
and what was a moment of national dialogue reverted to pointless political 
shouting matches.Today, Manchin is trying to sell a compromise on firearms 
background checks that would have done nothing to prevent the Newtown killings, 
since the perpetrator there didnt buy the weapons. He took them from 
his mother, whom he a


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