North Korea Has A Best Friend Forever, US Sanctions Show

A U.S. State Department official told a Senate subcommittee this week the government may probe deeper into nuclear-capable North Korea’s chief source of foreign help. Aid is apparently coming from a country that’s normally careful neither to condemn nor condone North Korean nuclear tests that scare U.S. allies such as Japan and South Korea. Last month the angry hermit government in Pyongyang tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile that riled Japan and the United States. UN sanctions against North Korea and backed Washington forbid trade in military supplies.