China is preparing for a potential crisis with North Korea, bolstering its defenses along their shared border by creating a patrol brigade and building bun
China is preparing for a potential crisis with North Korea, bolstering its defenses along their shared border by creating a patrol brigade and building bunkers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
China’s actions come on the heels of escalating rhetoric from U. S. officials who decried the latest missile test by the North’s reclusive communist regime. Pyongyang executed its first intercontinental ballistic missile test on July 4 and boasted that it has the technology to reach “anywhere in the world.”
Despite technically having the range to reach the United States, the North still has neither the technology to re-enter the atmosphere safely, nor the capability to build a nuclear warhead small enough to fit onto an intercontinental ballistic missile, experts say. The United States has historically been the main target of the North’s rhetoric.
U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement following the test that the North’s move “represents a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world.
