‘China to cut Pyongyang aid over N-test’

“If North Korea engages in further nuclear tests, China will not hesitate to reduce its assistance to North Korea,” the Global Times said in an editorial on Friday.

China has deep economic relations with North Korea and it is Pyongyang’s leading energy supplier and trade partner.

“China hopes for a stable peninsula, but it’s not the end of the world if there’s trouble there,” the editorial added.

On Thursday, Pyongyang said it would launch more long-range rockets and carry out a high-level nuclear test aimed at its “arch-enemy the United States”.


The announcement came two days after the UN Security Council passed a US-backed resolution to impose new sanctions against North Korea for its rocket launch in December 2012.

Pyongyang announced it had launched a long-range rocket from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, located in Cholsan County of North Pyongan Province, and successfully placed a satellite into orbit.

The rocket launch drew widespread criticism from the European Union and the UN.

On December 14, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the country would go ahead with its space program and would launch more rockets and send more satellites into orbit.

However, Washington and its allies said the North Korean rocket launch had been a cover for testing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

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