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China props up Pyongyang over US fears
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Apr 27, 2013 09:21pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, April 28, 2013 02:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | North Korea has long chomped at the Chinese hand that feeds it. Even as Beijing has buoyed the North’s moribund economy with aid and shielded it from the brunt of UN sanctions intended to curb its nuclear programme, Pyongyang has irked its benefactor with brinkmanship.
The isolated North chafes at close dependence on its ally from the 1950-53 Korean War, but a shared wariness of US intentions in Northeast Asia has kept it and China locked in a maladroit embrace.
Pyongyang’s position as a buffer between China’s northeast and democratic South Korea where 28,500 US troops are stationed has allowed it to enjoy Beijing’s tacit backing nearly indefinitely.
Despite vocal Chinese opposition, North Korea has recently raised tensions on the Korean peninsula to their highest level in six decades. Since February, Pyongyang has conducted a third nuclear weapons test, abrogated the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War and threatened to attack South Korea and the United States, dashing hopes that the regime of young Kim Jong-un would be more conciliatory than that of his father, Kim Jong-il. |
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