Since the imposing of United Nations sanctions against North Korea after its second nuclear test on May 25, everyone has been looking toward China for its response.
Publically, China has been insisting that it is with the United Nations and will impose all the recent resolutions passed against North Korea.
However, ground realities and political and strategic calculations might force China’s hand in another direction.
For the first time, the Chinese have been literally ``shocked” by a North Korean nuclear test. Conducted merely 50 miles from the Chinese border, it literally shook the whole of Northeast China.
Many schools and government buildings needed to be evacuated for fear of an earthquake. This has led many Chinese to now realize the North Korean nuclear threat might be closer to home than they had previously thought.
