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China is the key to avoiding nuclear 'fire and fury' in North Korea

  • Written by Greg Wright, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
imageThe news of an exchange of threats between the U.S. and North Korea is reported in Tokyo on Aug. 9, 2017.AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are playing a dangerous game of brinkmanship.

North Korea got the world’s attention – and Trump’s – when it successfully launched an...

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