North Korea presents China with special problems. On the one hand, North Korea’s intense anti-Americanism limits U.S. influence in China’s sphere, but on the other hand North Korea is, well, North Korea – and it is on China’s border. That’s the Asian equivalent of the next-door neighbor with a yard full of cars on cinderblocks; the neighbor who is likely to blast “Freebird” or a fire off a shotgun while you’re trying to sleep. You never know what’s coming next. China’s prime minister visited North Korea this week to see if he could hide some of the shotgun shells or at least take the volume knob off the stereo.
For more on North Korea’s bad-boy behavior, read Frank Chadwick’s North Korea: Peeing Blood on the Carpet.
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