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5 reasons China is reluctant to call time on N. Korea's nuclear program

The Christian Science Monitor 9 hours ago 
In the wake of North Korea's satellite launch on Sunday, the United States is – once again – steadily pressuring China to force Pyongyang to end its missile and nuclear program. The reasons are many for focusing on China in the wake of the test, which analysts viewed as cover for the North's intercontinental ballistic missile program. North Korea is almost wholly reliant on its neighboring giant. The flood of Chinese energy, material, food, and trade in recent years has allowed the country to step back from abject poverty and decrepitude. US officials have looked to China as the answer to Mr. Kim’s programs for years, as North Korea has slowly become a de facto nuclear state. They contend that ...
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N. Korea’s ‘Space Mission’ Seen as Missile Development

VOA News Sun, Feb 7 12:00 AM PST 
North Korea’s latest long-range rocket launch is raising concerns in the United States and its allies that the communist country is moving forward with its ballistic missile program. On Sunday, Pyongyang fired a long-range rocket from its west coast rocket launch site in Tongchang-ri. North Korea’s state television said the launch ordered by the country’s leader Kim Jong Un was a “complete success,” and that Pyongyang will continue to conduct the launches. Pyongyang insists the launch is a peaceful space mission. But its apparent noncompliance with international obligations raises questions about the purpose of the mission. When Pyongyang notified the International Telecommunication Union, a ...
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