North Korea’s Powerful Weakness
China is beginning to lose patience with North Korea. But it continues to face a dilemma: comprehensive economic and social reform may help to resolve the nuclear issue in the long run, but pushing too fast for such reform could cause the already-fragile Kim regime to collapse, bringing potential for chaos on China's border.
CAMBRIDGE – When US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for their “shirt-sleeves summit” in California last month, North Korea was a major topic of conversation. The subject was not new, but the tone was.