In an unusual move, North Korea’s state-run news outlets are directly criticizing China for allegedly disregarding the two countries’ long-standing friendship by sanctioning and pressuring Pyongyang.
  
The North’s Korea Central News Agency claimed in an editorial on Wednesday that China is wildly and recklessly crossing the red line in relations with North Korea.
   
The agency made it clear that Pyongyang will never give up its nuclear program in return for maintaining relations with China, saying that Beijing’s sanctions are a "senseless act that axes the pillar of bilateral relations."
 
The KCNA denounced China for dancing to the tune of the U.S. and blaming the North for worsening relations between the two nations, noting harsh criticism against the Pyongyang regime by the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper the People's Daily and its sister paper the Global Times.

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