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Ed Markey: “If the Chinese are loosening the trade sanctions against North Korea, then complete and irreversible denuclearization…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2018
If the Chinese are loosening the trade sanctions against North Korea, then complete and irreversible denuclearization becomes less likely, not more likely.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey emphasizes the negative impact of China's trade sanctions on North Korea's denuclearization.

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