CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA: “The Trump administration has asked Beijing to take action against nearly 10 Chinese companies and individuals to curb their trading with North Korea, according to senior U.S. officials, as part of a strategy to decapitate the key networks that support Pyongyang’s nuclear-weapons program.
Although there is no firm deadline, the U.S. has indicated the Treasury Department could impose unilateral sanctions on some of these entities before the end of the summer if Beijing doesn’t act, the U.S. officials said.
Without such action, U.S. officials fear that Pyongyang, which has conducted nine missile tests since President Donald Trump took office, would be able to develop a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead as far as the continental U.S. within a few years.
The U.S. officials declined to name the entities being targeted.”
-Jay Solomon and Jeremy page, “U.S. Weighs Sanctioning Chinese Entities Over North Korea,” The Wall Street Journal online, June 12, 2017 01:31pm