North Korea is at it again… After briefly garnering international attention and scorn in late June because of several missile tests, the North has fallen off the radar because of diplomatic intransigence and headline-grabbing Mid-Eastern events.
South Korea and China are warning the North against a possible underground nuclear test after Japanese & American agencies reported increased activity around a suspected potential test site.
Kim Jong-Il may just be rattling his saber prior to annual US-South Korean war games (beginning next week). Mr. Jong-Il repeatedly pushes the envelope; he’s trying to remind the world that he has nukes though Iran has the world’s attention. This is true because China has the ability to destabilize the North, if need be, while Iran is emerging as an aggressive regional power without a single economic crutch (as with DPRK). But China has been wary of refugees flooding across the border after a coup, as well as the uncertainty of who would rise to power. This is all conventional wisedom about China's influence; running against this is the fact China issued formal objections before June's missile tests and the North fired them anyway.
Related: Foreign News
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment