1. China and the Korean Peninsula: Arming Kim, Gutting Sanctions, Opposing THAAD
- Author:
- Gordon G. Chang
- Publication Date:
- 04-2017
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- International Journal of Korean Studies
- Institution:
- International Council on Korean Studies
- Abstract:
- China is playing a duplicitous game when it comes to North Korea. It proclaims it is enforcing Security Council resolutions when it is in fact not. The Chinese have overwhelming leverage over the North, but they will not use their power to disarm the Kim Family regime, at least in the absence of intense pressure from the United States. Beijing believes Pyongyang furthers important short-term Chinese objectives, and so views it as a weapon against Washington and others. Beijing’s attempts to punish Seoul over its decision to accept deployment of the THAAD missile defense system reveal true intentions.
- Topic:
- Sanctions, Authoritarianism, Weapons, Missile Defense, and UN Security Council
- Political Geography:
- China, Asia, South Korea, North Korea, and United States of America