"China had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations. Still, it's unusual for the North to directly criticize China. Previously it has couched such criticism by referring to China only as "a neighboring country. The North Korean commentary said it's China that crossed "the red line. ''The People's Daily declared Sunday -- and again on Tuesday -- that the North's nuclear ambitions "put itself and the whole region into dire peril.''

Source: Economic Times May 04, 2017 04:30 UTC