Posted on 05/03/2017 9:00:08 AM PDT by ColdOne
North Korea's state media published a rare criticism of China on Wednesday, saying Chinese state media commentaries calling for tougher sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear program were undermining relations with Beijing and worsening tensions.
A commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) referred to recent commentaries in China's People's Daily and Global Times newspapers, which it said were "widely known as media speaking for the official stand of the Chinese party and government."
"A string of absurd and reckless remarks are now heard from China every day only to render the present bad situation tenser," it said.
"China had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations," the commentary said, referring to North Korea by the acronym for its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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I’m convinced China and North Korea have not been on good terms for years. There is no way China wants a nuclear DPRK, right on its border, and for its part, if Kim probably fears China more than anyone, arranging a coup against him. china is the only country with any power over him, or contacts with his people or generals.
Being good dictatorships, both have kept silent, because they have no obvious path going forward.
Trump is (smartly, I believe) forcing the issue. He is bringing this contradiction between China and DPRK to the surface.
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If China didn’t want a nuke armed NK, they shouldn’t have supplied the technology and equipment to NK. Is China’s client state really turning on them? Or is this all for show? We can’t know for sure.
Interesting to see angry exchange of words is erupting between two state medias.
Did they?
But there are positive news from NK as well; they have started the potato planting and Fatty visited 22APR2017 Thaechon Pig Farm run by the Air and Anti-Air Force of the Korean People's Army.
A lot of people assume too close of a connection between China and the DPRK. China has long used the DPRK when they can, but does not control them, and the DPRK is sometimes a thorn in their side. It’s important to note that the same goes with Russia - in fact, it was the Soviet Union that picked Kim Il-Sung to run the country (specifically, Lavrentiy Beria, on request of Stalin). Kim only spoke marginal Korean when the Russians sent him back to run the country; he hadn’t lived there in 26 years.
DPRK technology is a mix of Chinese, Russian, miscellaneous foreign, and indigenous systems. Of the Chinese and Russian tech, some has been given at times when it was useful for them to boost the DPRK, and then made to last for decades on end. Others have been smuggled or simply bought outright from less scrupulous dealers. The DPRK does a lot of technology exchanges as well (most famously with Pakistan to get a lot of their nuclear tech, but also Iran and Syria as other examples).
Iraq has been subdued. Iran and Iraq have continued their cooperation in the development of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. Fortunately for us Clinton did not share MIR technology with these two nations, or we would really be in a pickle.
Unfortunately for us, Clinton did share MIR technology with China.
The Socialist Democrats always support socialist dictators, no matter what their stripe. They work behind the scenes. Unfortunately they have now aligned themselves with the Muslim Brotherhood. Their eventual goal is a worldwide socialist dictatorship.
Like the socialist in Iran before the fall of the Shah, they think they will be able to control their Muslim allies. It didn't work out well for the Iranian socialist.
Everything was peaceful until North Korea started rattling the nuclear saber. Then THAAD comes to South Korea and Japan starts arming up. China had it pretty good but North Korea upset the apple cart
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