Originally Posted by
etudiant
An NK pivot to the west while simultaneously running a nuclear program is a non starter even now, so probably not a concern to China.
China is, in the words of the first Kim, 'as close as lips to teeth' to NK, they provide them with food, weapons and industrial support. So China is and was critical to the NK nuclear effort.
If China tried to stop it, they clearly did not try very hard.
Still seems a very shortsighted policy imho.
No, actually it’s not. The Norks are a pragmatic lot in many aspects, chief among them, their security. If the fat wun or his predecessors believed China would physically stop them, there would have been immediate olive branches in the mail to the US. You forget, NK has threatened China as well as the US.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-k...lear-standoff/