China Threatens to Strike North Korea If It Crosses Their Bottom Line

With everyone putting down new and, or revised red lines, be it on Syria or North Korea, it was now China s turn to reveal its red or rather bottom line, and in a harshly worded editorial titled The United States Must Not Choose a Wrong Direction to Break the DPRK Nuclear Deadlock on Wednesday Beijing warned it would attack North Korea s facilities producing nuclear bombs, effectively engaging in an act of war, if North Korea crosses China s bottom The editorial in the militaryfocused Global Times tabloid, owned and operated by the Communist Party s People s Daily newspaper, said that North Koreas nuclear activities must not jeopardize northeastern China, and that if the North impacts China with its illicit nuclear tests through either nuclear leakage or pollution, then China will respond with force.