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In a blog of the NYT, I can't understand the last part of this paragraph:

On Monday, the Chinese government-run English-language China Daily called THAAD a serious regional security threat, and said that "a sanctions package that is sufficient for Pyongyang to reevaluate its nuclear program," would stop its deployment.

Is it a continuation of the sentence written in an inverted comma? What is the exact meaning of the last phrase in this context?

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    This might well be a typo. Do you understand the sentence if the comma is removed and the quotation marks are moved to the end (after 'deployment')? "Its" refers to the sanctions package. – No'am Newman Feb 16 '16 at 9:34
  • Agreed; this sentence does not need that last comma. It's possible whoever wrote/edited it included that comma solely because the quote was ending. Rephrased: The newspaper said that the deployment of THAAD would be stopped by a sanctions package sufficient to halt North Korea's nuclear program. – kungphu Feb 16 '16 at 12:15
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The sentence in the quotes (not inverted commas as you've stated) is most likely a quote, and the bolded part of the sentence in this context would be referring to the deployment of the nuclear program referred to in the quote.

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