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Chinese traders fret about North Korea sanctions

 

The trading hub of Hunchun, sandwiched between China’s borders with North Korea and Russia, has long reaped the rewards of its location.

But after feeling the tremors from Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test on Sunday, residents are now worrying about the fallout — both radioactive and economic.

“We felt the earthquake in our rooms,” says Liu Xiumei, a native of the city that lies just 200km from North Korea’s Punggye-ri test site. “We had never felt previous nuclear tests.”

Read more at Financial Times

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