Originally Posted by
West Coast
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/
The US did offer NK a pivot to the west if they ditched their nuclear program, but the offer was refused.
So how could NK pivot to the west if China had blocked their nuclear effort, given the west has the same blocking posture?
I don't doubt that China tried to restrain the NK nuclear effort, but obviously they did not try very hard.
It will be hard for them now to prevent others from doing likewise, particularly as the US security blanket continues to fray.