Chinese-Dragon
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If China stakes a claim at being a superpower itself (as it does, militarily), it should show that it can stop a undeveloped neignbouring country.
In 1961, the two countries signed the Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty, whereby China pledged to immediately render military and other assistance by all means to its ally against any outside attack. This treaty was prolonged twice, in 1981 and 2001, with a validity until 2021.
China could start by not prolonging that treaty, or threaterning to. Remember, what the North Koreans can lob at the US, they can also lob at China, and they are unruly and unpredictable enough.
That is, if China actually IS something, internationally speaking.
Um, no. China is not a superpower, we are only a developing country.
It's the superpower USA who is crying day and night that they are being bullied by undeveloped countries like North Korea.
They are so desperate that they are asking a developing country like China to do their job for them.
They might as well "let" North Korea have nukes just like they "let" Iran keep their nuclear program. It looks magnanimous, allowing them to do it when they couldn't stop it to begin with.
International sanctions could work if China joins,You choose not to.
Even you never believed that US sanctions would stop Russia from taking Crimea from the Ukraine. Or convince them to give it back.
Except this time the USA is not crying about a major power like Russia, they are crying about an undeveloped country like North Korea.
The USA has been declining in relative power every single year since 1991. The trend continues every year.
So you can just say the USA "let" Russia seize Crimea from the Ukraine, they "let" North Korea have thermonukes, they "let" China seize the Scarborough shoal from the Philippines (abandoning their mutual defence treaty), and they "let" Iran keep their nuclear program.