This picture taken on November 17, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows Song Tao attending a meeting with Choe Ryong-Hae (2nd R)
Reuters: China says will work with North Korea to boost ties as envoy visits
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - Traditional friendship between China and North Korea represents “valuable wealth” for their people, China said after its special envoy met a high-ranking North Korean official, but there was no mention of the crisis over North Korea’s weapons.
Song Tao, who heads the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s international department, is visiting Pyongyang to discuss the outcome of the recently concluded Communist Party Congress in China, at which President Xi Jinping cemented his power.
In a brief statement dated Friday but reported by Chinese media on Saturday, the international department said Song, who is there representing Xi, reported to North Korean official Choe Ryong Hae the outcome of the congress.
Song and Choe also talked about relations between their parties and countries, the department said.
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Update #1: China stresses steady development of friendly ties with N.K. (Korea Herald, Yonhap)
Update #2: Chinese, N.Korean envoys discuss regional concerns: state media (AFP)
WNU Editor: The Chinese sent their senior bureaucrat in their foreign affairs office to North Korea, and the North Koreans sent a close aide to North Korean leader Jim Jong-un. The person the North Koreans should have sent to such a meeting is their foreign minister or their deputy foreign minister .... this would have helped cement future talks between the two ministries (foreign ministries rarely conduct their two way communications with a personal aide of the leader .... they will talk with their counterpart). My impression of this meeting is that the Chinese are trying to establish a dialogue .... and the North Koreans are responding by giving the Chinese their due respect, but they are not interested in continuing a discussion. The above photo is also very revealing ... the Chinese have a big delegation, the North Koreans have an interpreter, and someone writing down notes. No lower rank North Korean officials present to talk with their lower-rank Chinese counterparts.
3 comments:
I wonder what the lead North Korean negotiator feels?
Does he feel powerful in that all those Chinese diplomats attend , have to be respectful and he came with a small party?
Does he feel that and/or fell scared, because North Korea is taunting a dragon?
This is just more lip service by China.
They haven't done -anything- but stall, delay anything the US could do. Instead they financially, politically, materially and militarily backed the north Korean regime.
Why the Chinese keep pretending that they actually really try to do anything (but buy time for them and north Korea) is a puzzle to me...maybe it's for the naive in this world. In the history of politics nothing has been as clear as that north Korea is being helped by China and that China doesn't care what the US wants.
I see this:
-China asks US for "100 days". Nothing happens but more nuke tests. Crucial time wasted during which the north korean regime makes important advances..a single month wasted would have been bad. ..this was 3 months and more
-China sells strategic mobile rocket launchers to north Korea - these make it difficult for "us" to get all the rockers without ground troops
- at same time China tells US not to invade north Korea or else..common. .
- China weakens sanctions and keeps sending oil/coal and money
- China even sells the rocket fuel (which is not the kind of fuel you can buy at a gas station) to north Korea -even after- north Korea multiple times threatened all out nuclear war on the US(!)
Yet here we go again with the spinning...China basically enables north Korea to credibly fight a nuclear war. Of course north Korea would lose and lose badly, but the US might lose several major cities as early as 2018 (from a capabilities perspective), according to all analyses out there.
So what do the Chinese win in this? A completely broke US that needs to rebuild for decades to come ..and who'll be there to sell the US goods and services in the trillions (!!) To get back in its feet?
Guess who's profiting the most.
It's China
Who profits from a nuclear dog on a leash in APAC? It's China
This is all China
North Korea is nothing but a farce state. A criminal enterprise under the pretext of being a government.
North Korea gov is a crime syndicate family. And they are betting to get hundreds of billions as reward from someone big. Guess who. Starts with C
Anon delivered.
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