The North Korea state media warned China of \u201cgrave consequences\u201d for harming the relationship between the two countries.<\/b>
\nNorth Korean state media is never shy about telling the U. S. to get bent, but the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) seldom turns its ire to China, Pyongyang\u2019s strongest and most important ally.
On Wednesday, however, the KCNA appeared to have had enough and fired back at China after a Beijing official told both the U. S. and North Korea, along with Japan and South Korea, to \u201cstop irritating each other.\u201d
North Korea\u2019s response was a metaphorical middle finger. \u201cChina had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of\u201d North Korea-China relations, a KCNA statement read, according to Reuters . \u201cA string of absurd and reckless remarks are now heard from China every day only to render the present bad situation tenser.\u201d
The statement went on to blame \u201csome ignorant politicians and media persons\u201d in China for unfairly calling on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear-weapons program. That call, the statement said, was \u201can undisguised threat to an honest-minded neighboring country which has a long history and tradition of friendship.\u201d
\u201cThe DPRK will never beg for the maintenance of friendship with China, \u201d the statement said, using the acronym for Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea.
Pyongyang\u2019s surprisingly stern response to China\u2019s finger-wagging shows the potential flaw in Trump\u2019s plan to rely on China to solve the North Korea problem. As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday, the U. S. is \u201cleaning hard into China to test their willingness to use their influence.\u201d He added: \u201cIt\u2019s a pressure campaign that has a knob on it, I\u2019 d say we\u2019 re at dial seven or six right now.\u201d
So far, that approach appears to have only caused Kim Jong-un to further dig in his heels. As Vox\u2019s Jennifer Williams notes, \u201cNorth Korea\u2019s leaders are ferociously nationalistic and really don\u2019 t like being pushed around.\u201d
It\u2019s almost as if this issue is \u201c not so easy .\u201d<\/p>\n

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