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		</div><p>North Korea has issued a rare direct criticism of China through a commentary saying its &#8220;reckless remarks&#8221; on Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear programme are testing its patience and could trigger unspecified &#8220;grave&#8221; consequences.</p>
<p>China, North Korea&#8217;s largest trading partner and main benefactor, has been urging the North to stop nuclear and missile activities amid US pressure to use its leverage to resolve the nuclear stand-off. The commentary, released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, says &#8220;a string of absurd and reckless remarks are now heard from China every day, only to render the present bad situation tenser&#8221;.<br />
It is unusual for the North to directly criticise Beijing.</p>
<p>Previously it has couched such criticism by referring to China only as &#8220;a neighbouring country&#8221;. The article cited commentaries by Chinese state media that it said shifted the blame for deteriorating bilateral relations on to the North and raised &#8220;lame excuses for the base acts of dancing to the tune of the US&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;China should no longer try to test the limits of the DPRK&#8217;s patience,&#8221; the North Korean commentary said, using its official name, the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea. &#8220;China had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations.&#8221;<br />
The article was not attributed to any government agency or official and the writer was identified only as Kim Chol.</p>
<p>Chinese state media has recently unleashed regular and harsh criticisms over the North&#8217;s actions.<br />
The Global Times, an outspoken nationalist tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s flagship People&#8217;s Daily, warned in a Thursday editorial that the North&#8217;s actions threatened a 1961 treaty of non-aggression between the two countries.</p>
<p>It called on the regime to end its nuclear tests. &#8220;China will not allow its northeastern region to be contaminated by North Korea&#8217;s nuclear activities,&#8221; the Global Times declared. In recent days, the paper also warned that China was able to strike back &#8220;at any side that crosses the red line&#8221; and would impose an oil embargo against the North in response to any more tests.</p>
<p>The North Korean commentary said it was China that crossed &#8220;the red line&#8221;. The People&#8217;s Daily declared on Sunday, and again on Tuesday, that the North&#8217;s nuclear ambitions &#8220;put itself and the whole region into dire peril&#8221;.</p>
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