Los Angeles Times (December 8)
2011/ 12/ 09 by jd in Global News
North Korea’s hope of “strategic partnership with the United States has run its course. In its place, the focus of Pyongyang’s policies has decisively shifted to Beijing.” In less than a year, Kim Jong Il made three trips to China. Both countries appear to want a stable 2012. In exchange for aid, China has extracted promises of no new turmoil from Kim. “We believe that this pivot toward Beijing is no routine oscillation in North Korean policy…. we expect the North in the near to medium term to make far less overt trouble.”
Tags: 2012, China, North Korea, Trouble, U.S.
