[Comment under "Days before UN coal sanctions went into effect, China purchased 1.6 million tons of North Korean coal, worth nearly 140 million dollars."]

That is great news!

I love how the artice is worded as to make both the DPRK and China sound as shady and corrupt as possible.

(...) curb North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons program by squeezing his ability to fund the program, and forcing the regime to negotiate.

First they refer to democratically elected Kim Jung Un as a dictator, but I guess anyone who does not obey the proto fascist U$ is a dictator huh? Of course unlike the Orange orangutan in the white house who managed to win without the popular vote... That in no way sounds like how a dictator comes into power. No not at all. They also somehow fail to mention the DPRK has attempted to negotiate countless times. Surely that was an accident.

Journalists, CBS News quickly found out, are less welcome. Just 10 minutes after Tracy and his team arrived on a street lined with North Korean businesses in Dandong, they we were stopped by Chinese police.

No! Say it is not so! Not the western journalists! Jesus.... It is almost as if a sovereign nation would not like a western imperialist news source filming their private transactions.

The police deleted CBS News' video of goods being sent to the North, so Tracy's team used an iPhone to shoot video from a building nearby, from which we could see what appeared to be construction materials and heavy machinery heading toward the bridge over the Yalu.

That is quite literally illegal. Now imagine this exact same situation but it is a transaction between the U$ and Japan. The CBS team was literally spying on a sovereign nation and acting as though they are the Victims. They should be jailed or at least banned from nation.

But as Tracy reports, China refuses to cut North Korea off at the knees, because it fears if the Kim regime collapses, refugees from the North will stream across the border into China. Worse yet, China worries it would see the U.S. military just across the Yalu River.

I love that projection from all Knowledgeable Tracy. I highly doubt China is protecting the DPRK because they are worried about having to deal with scary refugees... They are not the U$. That second point is very much true, but I wonder how the U$ would feel if China took over Mexico and was on their doorstep... I love how they also do not consider that maybe they are illegally trading with and protecting the DPRK because they do not want to see them genocided and starve? Maybe they actually care about a sovereign people that is not their own and do not seem them as just dollar signs? Nah it is obviously just for selfish refugee reasons.

God liberals make me feel like I lose brain cells every time I listen to them.