Prodding China to pressure North Korea: how US policy should change (Ted Galen Carpenter, Aspenia online)

10.05.2013 12:10

www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/prodding-china-pressure-north-korea-how-us-policy-should-change

Evidence mounts that China is becoming increasingly frustrated and annoyed with its North Korean ally. Not only did Beijing vote in favor of the two most recent rounds of sanctions that the UN Security Council imposed on Pyongyang, but statements by Chinese leaders directed to Kim Jong-un’s regime have become noticeably more pointed and caustic.