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Free AccessREPEAT: China Will Stop Any Overthrow Of N. Korea: Off'l Press
Repeats Story Initially Transmitted at 03:54 GMT Aug 11/23:54 EST Aug 10
--But If North Korea Strikes First, China To Remain Neutral On US Retaliation
BEIJING (MNI) - China warned through a major state-run newspaper on Friday
that it would prevent any attempted overthrow of the North Korean regime by the
United States and South Korea, but that if North Korea strikes the U.S. with
missiles first and the U.S. retaliates, China would remain neutral.
An editorial in the nationalistic Global Times, which is run by the
official People's Daily, said that Beijing was not able to persuade either
Washington or Pyongyang "to back down at this time," and wanted both sides to
"understand that when their actions jeopardize China's interests, China will
respond with a firm hand."
The Chinese government has long stressed the need for a peaceful resolution
of the North Korea issue, and has also repeatedly told the United States that
reining in North Korea's nuclear ambitions is not the sole responsibility of
Beijing.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said through Twitter messages that if China
"wants to solve the North Korean problem, they will," and that "China does
nothing for us with North Korea, just talk." He has also tied the possibility of
better trade deals for China to its ending the North Korean threat.
After North Korea's most recent test of an intercontinental ballistic
missile, which Pyongyang said could reach anywhere in the United States, the
U.N. Security Council on Saturday imposed new sanctions on Pyongyang depriving
it of what could potentially be $1 billion in export income. Pyongyang railed
against the sanctions, vowing retaliation against the United States "thousands
of times over."
In response, Trump warned North Korea that the U.S. would react with "fire
and fury" to any North Korean military threat. North Korea this week said it had
made plans to fire four missiles near Guam, a U.S. territory with two large
American military bases. The Pentagon, meanwhile, has made plans for pre-emptive
strikes on north Korean missile sites.
The Global Times editorial said the tit-for-tat rhetoric amounted to a
"reckless game" that may lead to "miscalculations and a strategic war."
"That is to say, neither Washington nor Pyongyang really wants war, but a
war could break out anyway as they do not have the experience of bringing such
an extreme game back under control," it said.
China, the editorial said, will "firmly resist any side which wants to
change the status quo of the areas where China's interests are concerned."
--MNI Beijing Bureau; +86 (10) 8532-5998; email: vince.morkri@marketnews.com
--MNI BEIJING Bureau; +1 202-371-2121; email: john.carter@mni-news.com
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