CHINA-DPRK (NORTH KOREA)
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South Korean newspapers reported that North Korea's relations with China, its sole ally and benefactor, appear to be going rapidly downhill. In an unprecedented move on July 21, North Korea attacked Beijing as "spineless" after cracking down on the usage of the yuan within its borders and reducing exchanges of personnel between the two sides. The move comes after months of a de-facto oil embargo from China that has adversely impacted the North Korean army and forced officers to cycle to work. North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission said: "Some spineless countries are blindly following the stinking bottom of the U.S., also struggling to embrace (South Korean President) Park Geun-hye, who came to a pathetic state of being." It said its latest missile tests are measures to strengthen its "self-defense capability."
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