US urges China to take stronger stance over N Korea nuclear tests
Euronews

USA -- US Secretary of State John Kerry has sharply criticised North Korea for carrying out a fourth nuclear test, despite international warnings.

Kerry has also been reiterating calls for more international sanctions to be implemented against Pyongyang.

North Korean state media announced that a successful test of a hydrogen bomb had taken place on 6 January. Experts are sceptical about the claim.

“(North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un’s actions are reckless and they are dangerous,” Kerry said at a joint news conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

“Whether or not he achieved the explosion of a hydrogen weapon is not what makes the difference. It’s that he’s trying, that he wants to do that and made the attempt.”

North Korea is isolated from much of the rest of the world, and China is its main link with the international community.

Kerry called the latest North Korean test “a blatant violation of the UN Security Council Resolution”, adding that “as permanent members of the Security Council our two countries (US and China) and other countries are required to take action.”

The so-called six-party talks between North Korea and South Korea, the US, China, Russia and Japan have been stalled since December 2008.

Source: http://www.euronews.com/2016/01/27/us-urges-china-to-take-stronger-stance-over-n-korea-nuclear-tests/

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Militarily, China needs a war to practice and train the troops if they want to be a world power and a reserve currency. North Korea is a great place to start! A bit of sniper practice, at least.

Of course China should put pressure on it's problematic little brother to the north. China should also allow N.Korean defectors to travel to S.Korea. Instead, China either arrests and jails them, or (worse) sends them back to the loony bin. If any European country did that to migrants, the world press corps would howl bloody murder.

This is clearly another exercise in futility.

The Chinese will outwardly sympathize and profess helplessness over their inability to control those rascally, impetuous North Koreans.

The truth is that North Korea wouldn't be able to even spell 'nuclear program' without the explicit permission, direction and assistance of China.

Mr. Kim is just another tool in the Chinese toolbox; to be used at their discretion.

It serves their interests to pretend otherwise.

Militarily, China needs a war to practice and train the troops if they want to be a world power and a reserve currency. North Korea is a great place to start! A bit of sniper practice, at least.

The reason is China wants this country and its lunatic leader as a buffer zone between them and South Korea.