Chinese special envoy Song Tao (second from left) meets with Choi Ryong-hae, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party at the Mansudae Assembly in Pyongyang on Nov. 17. (taken from the Chinese Communist Party International Liaison Department website)
Oki Nagai, Nikkei Asian Review: Squabble over Chinese envoy hints at North Korea's anxiety
Pyongyang sought sanctions relief as part of visit as pressure mounts.
BEIJING -- North Korea made numerous attempts to compel China to ease sanctions in connection with the recent visit by a Chinese envoy, several sources say, signaling cracks in the decades-long friendship between the two nations amid mounting international pressure against Pyongyang's nuclear and missile development.
China traditionally sends a special envoy to the country following the twice-in-a-decade Communist Party National Congress. But when Beijing first discussed this year's trip, Pyongyang demanded that economic sanctions be eased in exchange, pressing China for siding with U.S. demands that the North abandon its nuclear program.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese hold all the cards. The problem is that I do not think the North Korean leadership really appreciate how exposed that they are.
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@wnu..which is it? I see articles ranging from "Kim-Jong Un is the smartest cookie in the World" to "he doesn't know what he's doing" to "he's a madman" to "he's a mastermind". Can we please agree that we should judge the situation finally by facts and only facts? Rather than talk and psycho analysis from far away? Facts are that China is the number one enabler of North Korea and backs north Korea militarily. Not even 3 months ago China told the US not to invade north Korea or else. China is the country that sells everything from rocket fuel to rocket launchers to north Korea this enabling them militarily while protecting them militarily at the same time. When it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck. China has caused and enabled North Korea while retarding any actions against this development. How this is not crystal clear to you, I do not understand. To some people global warming will always remain a hoax or mystery, I guess the same is true for real Politik and military developments like this. The US is being blackmailed to retreat out of Asia, and the developments are in direct response to Obama's pivot to Asia. Just like the militarisation of the south China Sea is. They are connected. The common denominator is China.
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