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10/10 China to NK: "Bad Boy."
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000954.html
\_ Informed world to CoxAndForkum: Welcome to the Real World. Please
leave ill-conceived paranoid right-wing conspiracy theories at the
door.
\_ It's a political cartoon, not a conspiracy theory.
\_ ...implying that the PRK is a puppet of the PRC, hence the
conspiracy theory.
\_ NK is barely standing thanks to the help China gives it.
Hence the puppet. And the odd public disapproval of NK.
\_ While it's true that NK gets most of its supplies via
China, puppetry is an inaccurate portrayal. A better
portrayal might have indicated the PRC's portkeeper
position without implying outright puppetry.
\_ um, have you ever heard of "artistic license"?
\_ puppet government, by definition, is a government that
can not conduct its own foreign policy. By such
definition, N.Korea is *NOT* a puppet government of
China at all. Then again, under such definition,
*JAPAN* is a puppet government of United States, as
it can't conduct any foreign policy without US'
approval, couldn't prosecute military personnel
for raping 14 years old girls.
\_ Has NK returned the humanitarian trains to China yet? |
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| www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000954.html China, North Korea's most important ally, joined other world powers on Tuesday in calling for a tough response to the reclusive communist state's announcement of a nuclear weapons test. China and Russia, which both border North Korea, met with other veto-holding members of the UN Security Council to discuss a range of sanctions proposed by the United States and Japan to pressure Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program. Beijing's UN Ambassador, Wang Guangya, told reporters: "I think that there has to be some punitive actions." But he did not say which of the US-proposed sanctions he would support. "We need to have a firm, constructive, appropriate but prudent response to North Korea's nuclear threat," Wang added. Pyongyang's declaration was a sharp blow to Chinese President Hu Jintao's doctrine of using economic and diplomatic coaxing to persuade it to drop its nuclear ambitions. The announcement on Monday that it had conducted an underground nuclear test followed years of diplomatic efforts, particularly from Washington, to stop the unpredictable country from joining the seven other declared nuclear weapons states. InstaPundit) The truth is that North Korea is an irrelevant bit player in this whole drama. They have helped North Korea at every step, and North Korea's regime cannot survive at all without their ongoing food and fuel aid. Kim Jong-Il's nuclear plans may be slightly inconvenient to the Chinese -- just not not inconvenient enough to derail a strategy that still promises net plusses to those pursuing it within China's dictatorship. |