U.S. has no right to lecture China over North Korea: People's Daily

[WorldNews]

The United States is a troublemaker and has no right to lecture China about taking responsibility for reining in North Korea as tensions on the peninsula are a direct result of U.S. actions, the official People's Daily newspaper said on Wednesday. While China has been angered by North Korea's fifth and largest nuclear test to date last week, it has also blamed the United States for taking what Beijing sees as equally provocative behavior, like a decision to base the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile in South Korea. China is North Korea's most important diplomatic and trade partner, and while China has signed up for tough United Nations sanctions on the isolated state, it refuses to cut the country off completely, fearing it may collapse.

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