The recent North Korea artillery strike on a South Korean island highlights the failure of successive U.S. administration's policy of relying on China to rein in its communist ally in Pyongyang. For the past decade, first the Bush administration and then the Obama administration have farmed out North Korea policy to Beijing yet the reliance on China has led to increasingly belligerent actions, ranging from long-range missile flight tests, to nuclear tests, to the sinking of ships and now shelling border areas.

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