[nausmen]

Most Chinese citizens don't like North Korea's Kim Jung-il either. It's not disinformation. The Chinese want North Korea to be pro-China, not some retarded agitator that goes around embarrassing China (and specifically China) internationally.

North Korea has two factions: the Kim faction and the pro-Chinese faction. Kim Jung-il every once in awhile goes and purges all the pro-Chinese Koreans out of the government and puts them in concentration camps. China wants to keep the North Korean state, but it hates Kim. It is hoping that when Kim dies, the North Korean government will gravitate toward the Chinese.

If you think this is all disinformation, then you are refusing to see the dynamics between China and North Korea. China hates being embarrassed (and by a turd like Kim Jung-il), it would never deliberately plan itself to be embarrassed.

[agrace]

I don't think it's ALL disinformation (of course China wants to be leader of the east and its neighbors to fall in line behind it, as well as China wanting to save face in every situation, while trying to manage Kim Jung-il as a useful kook); I just have a hard time believing that China hasn't thus far allowed NK to develop nukes, that NK is acting completely independently of China.

North Korea has two factions: the Kim faction and the pro-Chinese faction. Kim Jung-il every once in awhile goes and purges all the pro-Chinese Koreans out of the government and puts them in concentration camps.

I didn't know that. Thank you for the insight.