Whenever North Korea causes trouble, politicians in America and
elsewhere point fingers at its only ally, China. So on April 7th, amid a
daily torrent from Pyongyang of threats of war and nuclear
annihilation, John McCain, a Republican senator, told an American
television programme that Chinese behaviour was “very disappointing”.
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plate and put a little pressure on this North Korean regime.” Yet there
is another school of thought: that China, exasperated with North
Korea’s lunatic provocations, is a calming influence and is tacitly
co-operating with America on easing tensions.
Certainly, China looks as if it is applying pressure. It seems to hold Air Jordan 6 high heels
North’s jejune despot, Kim Jong Un, in even lower esteem than it did
his predecessor and father, Kim Jong Il. It signed up to UN Security
Council resolutions tightening sanctions on North Korea both in January,
to punish it for a rocket launch in December, and in February, after
its third test of a nuclear device. And, as North Korea in March
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Chinese government had realised it had to be much clearer with North
Korea that what it is doing is “undermining China’s security”, and that
it was asking: “If this is a buffer state, what’s it good for?”
Moreover, China, which normally bristles at manifestations of America’s
“pivot” of its military might to Asia, has been remarkably low-key in
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effectiveness of China’s own nuclear deterrent.
Zhu Feng, a scholar at Peking University, has argued that North Korea offers “a new platform for China and Air Jordan 23 High Heels
United States to get closer”. The notion of North Korea as a cockpit of
Sino-American co-operation seems rather far-fetched. But a succession
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joint chiefs of staff, on a mission to improve communication between
American and Chinese armed forces. And next month Thomas Donilon, Barack
Obama’s national security adviser, is to visit. North Korea does seem
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suicidal ledge on which its blood-curdling propaganda has stranded it.
North Korea may have to be allowed to declare victory. This looks easy.
Since, to its own people, it is a heroic nation threatened by imminent
American nuclear onslaught, it can win merely by not being attacked. But
North Korea has already spurned one chance to celebrate a triumph,
after America on April 6th announced that, in deference to North Korean
paranoia, it was postponing a routine missile test in California.
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dead but “eternal” president, grandpa Kim Il Sung, on April 15th.
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