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Roger Wicker: “There's a widely held view... that if China really had the resolve to squeeze their North Korean neighbor on the issue…”

On the recordJune 10, 2009
There's a widely held view... that if China really had the resolve to squeeze their North Korean neighbor on the issue of denuclearization, they could accomplish this in a way that really no other country on the globe can do.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Discusses China's potential influence on North Korea's denuclearization.

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