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September 19, 2017, 1:14pm
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Mijin:
What we’re talking about is anything to support the notion that China is still giving critical support to NK’s nuclear program.
Nobody doubts that China and Russia gave NK vital assistance earlier on. I said as much upthread (or in the parallel thread).
However your contention is that China could end the problem with NK, with the implication that they could do so easily. And you’ve said that they “are getting”, implying the present tense, materials for their nuclear program from China.
Do you have any support for that?
I never said it would be easy, I said they could do it. I also went over in some detail what the cost would be in terms of humanitarian crisis, and also noted that China won’t do this for its own reasons. As for help, I assume you didn’t read my post in the other thread so I’ll start there and requote it here. It’s got links to articles talking about China’s more recent aid wrt bomb and missile technology.
You can do a search on this and get a ton of links, but I’ll link to few that jumped out at me (actually, in all honesty, the first few links since I’m just a lazy bastard):
In addition to the above and in the other links (and, full disclosure, I didn’t read through them all), you also have the fact that China is responsible for most of the hard currency in North Korea (well, the legal hard currency I suppose), which is what allows North Korea the ability to buy any of the stuff they can’t get from China. All this said, though, understand I’m using ‘China’ very broadly here…a lot of this, especially the technology transfers being speculated on aren’t coming officially from the current faction in control of the CCP…they are coming from several other factions within China. But this is something that’s been happening for a LONG time. It’s what enabled North Korea to initial build the first weapons they tested, and what’s enabled them to build more and more sophisticated bombs and missiles.