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China bans North Korean coal and iron imports following tough UN sanctions
Independent/UK, Aug 14, 2017, Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith

China is to stop importing coal, iron ore, seafood and other goods from North Korea in a matter of weeks, as it brings its operations in line with sanctions imposed by the United Nations following the development of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear and missile programmes.

China is North Korea’s main trading partner but it last week supported the UN Security Council ban. The Chinese customs agency has said it will stop processing imports of coal, iron and lead ores, and seafood from the country at midnight on 5 September.

Any cargo already on its way to China will be cleared as usual by customs ahead of the sanction deadline, the Chinese government said.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously to impose new sanctions on Pyongyang last week, in what the US Ambassador to the UN called “the single largest economic package ever levelled against the North Korean regime”.


More:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-north-korea-ban-coal-iron-imports-un-sanctions-us-donald-trump-pyongyang-a7892456.html

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https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-08-14/how-the-us-can-convince-china-to-address-north-koreas-nuclear-threat

...North Korea depends on China for the bulk of its food, fuel and access to the international financial system. The Kim Jong Un regime might well collapse if China exerted its full leverage.

The problem is that the Chinese fear the collapse of the regime – with the specter of 20 million refugees streaming toward China and U.S. forces on its border – more than it fears a North Korea armed with nuclear weapons....
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https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-08-14/how-the-us-can-convince-china-to-address-north-koreas-nuclear-threat

...North Korea depends on China for the bulk of its food, fuel and access to the international financial system. The Kim Jong Un regime might well collapse if China exerted its full leverage.

The problem is that the Chinese fear the collapse of the regime – with the specter of 20 million refugees streaming toward China and U.S. forces on its border – more than it fears a North Korea armed with nuclear weapons....

There won't be 20 million refugees streaming north.  Most of them couldn't make it that far and the mountains make for difficult travel.    They would welcome the women that could be sold off as sex slaves and would probably like the cheap labor otherwise for those that do make it.
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https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-08-14/how-the-us-can-convince-china-to-address-north-koreas-nuclear-threat

...North Korea depends on China for the bulk of its food, fuel and access to the international financial system. The Kim Jong Un regime might well collapse if China exerted its full leverage.

The problem is that the Chinese fear the collapse of the regime – with the specter of 20 million refugees streaming toward China and U.S. forces on its border – more than it fears a North Korea armed with nuclear weapons....

South Korea fears the refugees as well, which is why they want to tread carefully with disposing the Pyongyang regime.

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   Wasn't China in full violation of the last UN sanctions on NK coal, in spite of their protestations that they were in full compliance?
   I trust them about as much as Putin. 
   Can only hope President Trump seeks wise(r) counsel on this CF of a situation, he inherited.
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There won't be 20 million refugees streaming north.  Most of them couldn't make it that far and the mountains make for difficult travel.    They would welcome the women that could be sold off as sex slaves and would probably like the cheap labor otherwise for those that do make it.

True, but most of the population is on the west where the mountains are not such an issue.



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   Wasn't China in full violation of the last UN sanctions on NK coal, in spite of their protestations that they were in full compliance?
   I trust them about as much as Putin. 
   Can only hope President Trump seeks wise(r) counsel on this CF of a situation, he inherited.

China used up the quota early in the year and then cut of imports of coal already.

China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/world/asia/north-korea-china-coal-imports-suspended.html
FEB. 18, 2017

 China said on Saturday that it was suspending all imports of coal from North Korea as part of its effort to enact United Nations Security Council sanctions aimed at stopping the country’s nuclear weapons and ballistic-missile program.

The ban takes effect on Sunday and will last until the end of the year, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a brief statement posted on its website on Saturday. Chinese trade and aid have long been a vital economic crutch for North Korea, and the decision strips North Korea of one of its most important sources of foreign currency.

Coal has accounted for 34 percent to 40 percent of North Korean exports in the past several years, and almost all of it was shipped to China, according to South Korean government estimates.

The ban comes six days after the North Korean test of a ballistic missile that the Security Council condemned as a violation of its resolutions that prohibited the country from developing and testing ballistic missile technology....
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