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Treating China lightly for its support of North Korea is consistent with the approach of the Bush and Obama administrations, but it makes little legal or strategic sense today.
In addressing the threat from North Korea, a very real threat in which the North Korean’s could develop ICBMs that could deliver nuclear weapons to the American mainland, the United States must confront two very difficult challenges.
As tensions between the United States and the DPRK continue to rise, too few analysts are considering the danger of China intervening militarily in response to a U.S. strike on the DPRK’s nuclear weapons and missile programs.
The United States should take proactive steps to address North Korea and not wait for China to rein in Kim Jong Un.
DPRK is either not a state party to various agreements that it might otherwise have violated or the agreements to which it is a state party do not apply in this case because it is not in an armed conflict with Malaysia.
While restricting coal imports from North Korea satisfies some of China’s existing obligations to the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), the ban also serves domestic policy interests in limiting foreign coal imports and reducing domestic consumption of coal-fired energy.
A recent New York Times story on U.S. cyber-operations against the North Korean ballistic missile program prompts questions over whether the United States has crossed the threshold into "acts of war" in cyberspace.
Response to the most recent provocations from Pyongyang will center as much on the U.S.-China relationship as they do on North and South Korea.
An overview of North Korea's recent launch of a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, pertinent UNSCRs, and the country's current nuclear and missile capabilities.
On April 24, the AP quoted North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong as having said in an interview:
Stop the nuclear war exercises in the Korean Peninsula, then we should also cease our nuclear tests."
Ri further stated that