China could do much more than it has to get North Korea to "stop provocations," US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday after Pyongyang conducted two ballistic missile tests.
Carter said China has by far the greatest influence over its Stalinist neighbor and "it could do a lot more."
"The president has urged the Chinese leadership to get in the game and try to get them (the North Koreans) to a position where they stop provocations and ultimately do what they signed up to do, which is to have a non-nuclear Korean peninsula both North and South," he said at a breakfast with journalists.
The latest tests, which came amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, were believed to involve two medium-range Rodong missiles, one of which splashed down in the Sea of Japan and the other which disappeared from radar shortly after launch.
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