I never get tired of hearing China talk about its view of North Korea as a stubborn child who won't behave unless somebody from outside the school decides it needs discipline. It is their child after all.
The Wall Street Journal updated its editorial on China's imports of North Korean coal to show how China managed to cram a year's quota into one month, then sell more using exceptions granted to the rules of the U.N resolution. The Chinese seem to think that everyone in the world body is stupid. It is only so if the reaction to Chinese-engineered exceptions in the agreement makes them appear to be following along like some lap dog. That is one definition of stupid, I have to agree.
This is form over substance. If the members of the United Nations think it is OK to have form, without delivering any lessons to North Korea, then we have enough to make everyone happy. They just fired four more missiles across the bow of South Korea without even a whimper from anyone in the international community. At the pace they have set, they will be out of missiles before the sanctions have any effect, then China can say, "Yes, our sanctions have taken hold and the North is behaving like a normal child."
The North is certainly justifying everything the South is spending on anti-missile defenses, so when the U.S-built THAAD is installed in the South, maybe it can pick a few of those passing overhead and blow them out of the sky. That would be fun.
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