north korea's action and pledge to beef up sanctions against asia base independent news editor james kopp it does says the timing of the test raises many questions. one of sanctions that could be applied or are already being applied so it's really i think going to fall into a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north korea and it's and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. you there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time throw that through into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new or big government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question