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>There hasn't been much trouble getting other countries to put pressure on North Korea. ...other countries except China, the important one. North Korean produ
by gozur88 11y ago
>There hasn't been much trouble getting other countries to put pressure on North Korea.
...other countries except China, the important one. North Korean products (legal plus things like drugs and counterfeit cash and weapons) are shipped overland and out through China's ports. The Chinese sell oil to North Korea at below market rates. Plus luxury items for the people in charge. If China decided to play ball the North Korean government could not survive.
- mikeash 11y agoChina still pressures them. Maybe not enough, but it seems like North Korea is too willing to call their bluff. China doesn't want North Korea to collapse, and that has little to do with whataboutism regarding the US's nuclear arsenal.