Lee Min-Yong is a visiting professor in the School of Global Service at Sookmyung Women’s University, South Korea and a former adviser (foreign affairs and national security to the Presidential Office of the Republic of Korea.
The scale and speed of Pyongyang’s reported troop deployment to Russia strongly suggests premeditation. The US and China must act to prevent escalation.
As North Korea develops tactical nuclear warheads, China must not allow Pyongyang to threaten regional security. Radioactive leakage could impact communities along the Chinese border in the event of a seventh atomic test.