[wildcatf4f3]

My bet is that China's business sense will throw Kim to the wolves. He could become very expensive.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #6

That is the whole point. Make it intolerably expensive to keep Kim. If the price is tolerable, China would continue to do so.

[loneranger2]

NK had best not get in the way of both their business interests AND their economic war expansionism.

[finnigan2]

"My bet is that China's business sense will throw Kim to the wolves. He could become very expensive."

- China being China, my bet is that they will back a palace coup sometime soon and replace Kim Jong Il with a Beijing puppet. The only condition that Beijing will place on the puppet for their support is that he drops the weapons program.
Is everybody happy? You bet.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NK does and says nothing without the PRC's approval.