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China is unlikely to exercise enough pressure on North Korea to make it rethink its weapons programs, and the U.S. should aggressively pursue "secondary sanctions" on Chinese firms doing business with the North in order to get Beijing moving, U.S. experts said Tuesday.
"I think there are going to be limits to what they're going to be willing to do. Their biggest fear, of course, is destabilizing the peninsula. Now is the time to try to make China understand that the status quo is worse for them than all other scenarios," Kelly Magsamen, a former senior Pentagon official, said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
"I think we need to hold their interests at risk," she said. "We need (to) think hard about secondary sanctions on Chinese banks. I actually think we should go out and -- and do it now. I don't think we should actually wait. I don't think that holding it in advance is actually going to induce Chinese cooperation. So now is the time to demonstrate to China that we're serious in that regard."
Since his first summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump has kept encouraging China to increase pressure on the North, repeatedly praising Xi for trying to do so, including returning coal shipments from North Korea.
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"I think there are going to be limits to what they're going to be willing to do. Their biggest fear, of course, is destabilizing the peninsula. Now is the time to try to make China understand that the status quo is worse for them than all other scenarios," Kelly Magsamen, a former senior Pentagon official, said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
"I think we need to hold their interests at risk," she said. "We need (to) think hard about secondary sanctions on Chinese banks. I actually think we should go out and -- and do it now. I don't think we should actually wait. I don't think that holding it in advance is actually going to induce Chinese cooperation. So now is the time to demonstrate to China that we're serious in that regard."
Since his first summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump has kept encouraging China to increase pressure on the North, repeatedly praising Xi for trying to do so, including returning coal shipments from North Korea.
http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=AEN20170426000500315&domain=3&ctype=A&site=0100000000