China Ban on Items for Nuclear Use to North Korea May Stall Arms Bid

North Korea became even more of an outlier last week. China, its longtime patron, produced a list of equipment and chemical substances it banned for export to North Korea, fearing that the North would use the items to speed development of an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear bomb on top.

The publication of the 236-page list of banned items came as a surprise to many who follow North Korea and China, given China’s longstanding reluctance to do anything that might destabilize the North and allow the United States any more power on the Korean Peninsula.

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Jane Perlez, The New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/IkEf2nU5lds/