Japan Koreas Tensions

FILE – In this Tuesday, July 4, 2017, file photo, people walk in front of an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shown on a large screen as a TV news reports the North Korea’s missile test which landed in the waters of Japan’s economic zone, in Tokyo. Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s hopes for China’s help in dealing with North Korea and his recent tough talk on the matter, the two sides seem to be growing further apart as their approaches and concerns diverge. China shows no sign of caving in to U.S. pressure to tighten the screws on North Korea, while the North’s recent missile tests have done little to rattle Beijing. China’s bottom line continues to hold: no to any measures that might topple Kim Jong Un’s hard-line communist regime. The top banner reads: “North Korea Missile.” (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)