Protests break out on China-North Korea border over new sanctions

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Protests have broken out on the Chinese border with North Korea, as China's seafood importers watched frozen product melt in trucks blocked from crossing after China imposed a new round of economic sanctions.

It shows a long line of unmoving truck containers stuffed with crabs and shrimp that were melting in the sunshine and risked becoming spoiled product in the latest sign that Beijing is, for now at least, strictly enforcing a new round of sanctions "There is nothing we can do but accept it as our fate," said Cui Yanzhi, a local trader in the Chinese city of Hunchun, where North Korean product has long underpinned a thriving business in the far northeastern corner of the country, not far from Vladivostok.

Pyongyang has angered Beijing through its belligerent defiance of international demands that it halt its weapons development program, and China was among the countries that signed off on a new round of United Nations economic sanctions in early August.

Roughly 90 per cent of foreign trade with North Korea moves through China, which imposed those sanctions starting at midnight Wednesday, immediately stopping iron, lead, coal and seafood from entering.

"Owing to China's traditional economic ties with North Korea, it will mainly be China paying the price for implementing the resolution," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last week.

"China views passing sanctions as a signal to send to North Korea, and what better way to send it than cutting off the trucks right at the border," said Justin Hastings, an international-relations scholar at the University of Sydney who wrote A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy.

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