Persuading China to cooperate against the North

[JohnyD]

China will never do that..it always wanted NK to have premium WMD like Nukes to piss off Japan in one hand and to irate the US on other hand ...It did the same against India by Nuking Pakistan!

 

[Abacin]

North Korea Nuke program is the product of China/Russia/USA/Korea/Japan policies. China needs North Korea Nuke program to distract US geopolitical deployment; Russia needs the same too, plus distancing koreas from China; Both Koreas need this to turn Korea into a Nuke Power; USA needs this to deploy missile defense systems against China/Russia; Japan wants this to develop nukes too. All hypocrite politicians!!!

Unless China/Russia/United States reaches satisfying balance for all sides, it will always be like this.

China/Russia/United States are not afraid of North Korea nukes at all; They are only afraid of nuclear proliferation which can weaken their status in this planet.

 

[Nan Yang]

Thanks for sharing your input, so in other words, you believe that the Korean interstate paradigm is being used as a proxy mechanism between Washington and Beijing and is in fact a tool for both powers to have control / influence in the region. I don't necessarily disagree with this analysis.

Like I said, China's policy on N Korea is very simple. No war, No collapse and No Nuclear Weapons. In that order.
It boils down to stability to allow China to develop and catch up with the West.

You can do anything else. You can talk. You can sign a peace theaty. You can trade. Korea can even reunite peacefully.

The problem is United States. US will never deal or sign anything with a person like Kim Jong Un. Period. They only interested in regime change through force. Nothing less.
They are happy to just keep intimidating N Korea. Even happier if Kim set off more rockets or bombs. It allows them to justify increasing military presence in S Korea.

As for Japan, the last thing Japan wants is a united Korea. That's nothing new.

So....If North and South Korea gets too friendly, both United States and Japan will do all it can to sabotage it. And that's pretty easy to do with a thin skin Kim. Like once when Dick Cheney called him an asehole. Or make a claim about Kim Jong Il printing fake dollars. Or in the case of Japan, bring up the kidnapping cases. Or hold more military excersices.

The problem has nothing to do with China. China just want peace in its backyard.

 

[oprih]

This is a combined effort by america and japan to create instability in the region.