WorldWashington's top diplomat arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday to kick off a first tour of Asian capitals under the shadow of North Korea's nuclear posturing. - Nuclear arsenal - =================== China is perhaps the last country with significant leverage over North Korea, which has ignored several rounds of UN-backed sanctions targeting its banned nuclear weapons program. In recent comments, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi implied the United States and North Korea were equally at fault for the latest crisis and moving towards a “head-on collision”. With apparently little prospect of a breakthrough, some foreign policy hawks in Washington have been pushing for secondary sanctions that would hurt Chinese banks doing business with North Korea. “Everybody agrees on the challenge, which is: How do you stop North Korea's bad behaviour?” Toner said.

Source: Sunday Times March 15, 2017 12:22 UTC