North Korea missile threat has lawmakers pushing China sanctions

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North Korea’s threat to restart missile testing has American lawmakers looking for new ways to pressure the regime without risking the major conflict that had world leaders on high alert in 2017.

“This damn game’s gone on for … 30 years, and it’s gotten more severe,” Ted Yoho, R-Fla., a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Examiner. “And then we’ve got to worry about what China and Russia will do if there is a conflict.”

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