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BEIJING/WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - China on Friday denied reports it has been illicitly selling oil products to North Korea after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was not happy that China had allowed oil to reach the isolated nation.
Trump said on Twitter the previous day that China had been "caught" allowing oil into North Korea and that would prevent "a friendly solution" to the crisis over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs that it conducts in defiance of heavy U.N. Security Council sanctions.
"I have been soft on China because the only thing more important to me than trade is war," Trump said in a separate interview with The New York Times.
South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper this week quoted South Korean government sources as saying that U.S. spy satellites had detected Chinese ships transferring oil to North Korean vessels about 30 times since October.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...elling-oil-illicitly-to-north-korea/23319491/
Trump said on Twitter the previous day that China had been "caught" allowing oil into North Korea and that would prevent "a friendly solution" to the crisis over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs that it conducts in defiance of heavy U.N. Security Council sanctions.
"I have been soft on China because the only thing more important to me than trade is war," Trump said in a separate interview with The New York Times.
South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper this week quoted South Korean government sources as saying that U.S. spy satellites had detected Chinese ships transferring oil to North Korean vessels about 30 times since October.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...elling-oil-illicitly-to-north-korea/23319491/
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