China and N. Korea and why the NASA cant develop rockets like North Korea

4.5 acres of sovereign US territory. 

I ramble on here a bit regarding potential game changing Chinese action action against N.Korea, and why NASA should develop rockets like the Russians and N. Koreans.

Trump is apparently having some success influencing China to respond to N. Korean nuke tests. China is realizing the US means business under Trump, as opposed to the 8 years of Obama's do nothing policy towards N. Korea. Even the mouthpiece of the Chinese government, The Global Times, suggested increased sanctions against N.Korea if they test another nuke. The Chinese know Trump means business as his strikes against Syria and the movement of a carrier strike group to the Korean peninsula has shown he is willing to take decisive action.

As I mentioned earlier Obama adhered to a policy of lets just wait until N. Korea collapses. Meanwhile, the Kim regime wasn't going anywhere and just kept improving their nuclear and ballistic missile programs.  (disjointed transition to rocket development here)...

The 1st stage of a Space X Falcon 9 rocket that
 landed on a barge in the atlantic ocean after putting its payload in orbit.

While Obama did nothing Kim and his scientists improved their ballistic missiles through the old Soviet method of trial and error. Every rocket test the US declared a failure was actually a success for the N. Koreans as they learned from every mistake. Its incremental improvement. The NASA method takes longer as we are hesitant to have a failure on launch because they ar afraid to lose support of congress, and thus funding. NASA tries to engineer all of the bugs out before the first launch, this takes longer and is more expensive. Space X takes the approach of the Russians,,they are not afraid to fail and use each failure to learn more. Look at Space X failures at landing the first stage of a rocket,,many failures but they learned from each one and it's paying off now.