re: China suspends North Korean coal imports striking at regime’s financial lifeline

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China has long been reluctant to do anything that might threaten the stability of the North Korean regime — mainly because it fears that the reunification of the Korean Peninsula could bring South Korea, an American ally that hosts U.S. troops, right up to its border. .

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The primary reason they don't want to destabilize the DPRK is they don't want 22 million refugees flowing across their border.