[TigerLikesRooster]

Talks won't work. N. Korea already indicated that they won't be a lapdog of China.

[Dallas59]

How convenient for the Chinese. Sign a pact with NK...attack Taiwan.

[South40]

Mission accomplished.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[DB]

What's there to talk about?

The horse has already left the barn.

[Zhang Fei]

More of the Chinese good cop routine, with North Korea playing the bad cop. The fact that they're playing on the same team is so transparent, I can't understand why the media - and some Western analysts - continue to take Chinese good faith for granted.

[Grut]

..."brazen" North Korea nuclear test

Yeah, nukes tend to be kind of obvious.

[Solamente]

[Joe Boucher]

I think it's great that the chi-coms now have a nuclear North Korea on its border. With a crazy fool with his mitts on the button.

Be afraid chi-com scum, be very afraid.

[Lazamataz]

If China's getting pissed at North Korea, they gots problems.

[AmericaUnited]

Seriously, what does it really matter if NK detonates a nuke underground??

[McGavin999]

The statement used language that was unusually forceful for China, a neighbor and traditional Communist ally of North Korea that has advocated engagement and dialogue over stronger moves such as sanctions.

LOL, like that's going to do anything. Chinia is the one who insisted on the 6 party talks and now NK has totally humiliated China in the eyes of the world.

[LibLieSlayer]

china created the dog north korea, and that dog is hungry and will soon bite the hand that feeds it! Starve nk, no food, no money and no oil... Civilians will suffer... but the survivors will have a much better life!

LLS

[nuconvert]

"N. Korea already indicated that they won't be a lapdog of China."

Is that a joke?

[Dr. Marten]

This is a product of China's own doing. If you continue to feed a monster, it will continue to grow and eventually it will get so big that you can no longer control it.

[RightWhale]

The test device may have gone off by accident. If some wires were unattached at the time that would explain the lack of symmetry. Possible sabotage.

[WashingtonSource]

China coddled the monster and this is what they get.

[Minutemen]

Yeah, right. Chine gave NK the bomb (or looked the other way all these years)

[Brilliant]

"Congratulations, Kim."

[kalee]

Denounced NK as brazen and followed the denunciation up with ....WHAT?

[JasonC]

"you are supposed to do this secretly, not brazenly, you fools. Now we have to say this crap to maintain plausible deniability and keep shipping stuff to the US for cash."