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Friday, August 11, 2017
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China Would Join Forces With North Korea if U.S. Launches Pre-Emptive Strike
China will remain neutral if North Korea fires missiles at United States territory first, but should the U.S. launch a pre-emptive strike, as it has suggested it might, North Korea’s chief ally would come to the North’s aide. While not direct government policy, that verdict of how the country should react amid the unfolding nuclear threats from the U.S. and North Korea is contained in an editorial in the influential Communist Party–run Global Times newspaper Friday.
“China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten U.S. soil first and the U.S. retaliates, China will stay neutral,” read the editorial. “If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so.”
It went on: “China opposes both nuclear proliferation and war in the Korean Peninsula. It will not encourage any side to stir up military conflict, and will firmly resist any side which wants to change the status quo of the areas where China's interests are concerned.”
The piece stated that the government was “not able to persuade Washington or Pyongyang to back down at this time.”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for China to do more to rein in North Korea, which last month conducted two tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles that it said could strike the U.S. Tensions escalated further this week when Trump threatened to unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea.
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Despite those comments being met with criticism as inflaming an already fraught situation, he has since doubled down, stating from his vacation at a golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Thursday that “maybe it wasn’t tough enough.”
He continued his heated tone Friday morning on his Twitter feed.
“Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!” he wrote.
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