When China’s Ministry of Commerce announced an embargo on North Korean coal and other sanctioned commodities on April 5, few seasoned observers believed Beijing would begin strict enforcement. In the wake of North Korea’s previous four nuclear tests over the previous decade, China had shown itself to be lax implementing the UN sanctions in response. But in

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