It's China's Problem

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Author(s) Anne Applebaum
Source The Washington Post
Date October 17, 2006
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601018.html
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Quotes-start.png "But if it is within China's power to rescue or destroy Kim, then how, exactly, did North Korea's nuclear weapons program become in any sense the responsibility of the United States? Unlike China, the United States has no diplomatic levers it can use in North Korea, no trade relations of any significance and certainly no shared border." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position China should pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions on the topic North Korean nuclear crisis.