China and South Korea warn Pyongyang of stiffer sanctions over weapons tests

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SouthChinaMorningPost
UPDATED : Tuesday, 11 April, 2017

China and South Korea have agreed to impose “strong” new sanctions on North Korea if it carries out further nuclear or long-range missile tests, a senior official in Seoul said on Monday.

The commitment comes as pressure on Pyongyang mounts after last week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping.

Monday’s meeting in Seoul between China’s Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs Wu Dawei and his South Korean counterpart Kim Hong-kyun also came as a US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson headed to the region in a show of force.

“In the midst of the growing possibility of North Korean provocations, The latest visit by Wu ­Dawei to Korea is very timely in terms of sending a strong warning to North Korea,” Yonhap news agency quoted Kim as saying.

Wu’s trip was the first to South Korea by a senior Chinese official since a diplomatic row erupted between Beijing and Seoul over South Korea’s planned deployment of the US’ Terminal High ­Altitude Area Defence system.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2086506/china-and-s-korea-warn-pyongyang-stiffer-sanctions-over

[BlueStateSaint]

it's one thing to say that you're going to refuse coal imports.  But when you start actually doing it, and cutting off the major export of the NoKos, thus denying them hard capital, it's an escalation.