NORTH KOREA.
Posted on 02/18/2017 3:24:57 PM PST by NRx
BEIJING — China will suspend all imports of coal from North Korea until the end of the year, the Commerce Ministry announced Saturday, in a surprise move that would cut off a major financial lifeline for Pyongyang and significantly enhance the effectiveness of U.N. sanctions.
Coal is North Korea’s largest export item, and also China’s greatest point of leverage over the regime.
The ministry said the ban would come into force Sunday and be effective until Dec. 31.
China said the move was designed to implement November’s United Nations Security Council resolution that tightened sanctions against the regime in the wake of its last nuclear test.
But experts said the move also reflected Beijing’s deep frustration with North Korea over its recent missile test and the assassination of Kim Jong Un’s half brother in Malaysia.
Kim Jong Nam had been hosted and protected by China for many years, and his murder, if proved to be conducted on Pyongyang’s orders, would be seen as a direct affront to Beijing, experts said.
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NORTH KOREA.
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48 months or 72 at no interest ... Due to no interest one should never return at 11
would be this Junta GOING AWAY
Aaaww,those poor North Koreans.
The madman will eat well——they’ll just starve.
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A stick without a filter
China had use for and plans for Kim Jong Nam
Ya don't off him without permission.
Now the Norks will all pay the price, ... starve.
South Korea will have to pick up the tab and will ask for US help. We'll have to wait and see what the new sheriff does.
A bet .... China lies
Will only hurt the bottom feeders.
I think she died of hunger or something shortly after this picture was taken.
In this instance, I doubt it. N Korea has very openly dissed China multiple times over the last few years. But terminating a man who was known to be under Beijing’s protection, in such a public and dramatic manner, is an insult that China can’t let pass without losing face. I think North Korea has finally gone too far.
Kim Jong Un knew that his replacement was being groomed - thus the assassination. Sad thing is, it might have bought him a few more years on the throne.
I think Trump stuck his finger in China’s eye.
Glad you’re intelligence
Looks like China has had enough from that fat lunatic.
NK will have a civil war and become a Hong-Kong-type province of China or reunite with SK by 2020. You heard it here first.
This past week, our SOS told China to do something about the NORKs. Me thinks the ChiComs have more respect for T-Rex than they had for Kerry and Clinton...combined.
“Uh oh. It looks like N Korea has stuck its finger in China’s eye once too often. “
Or maybe Trump?
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