Focusing on propaganda value ignores the internal politics of North Korea.
North Korea has powerful military. By it’s own admission they had some intelligence services that were doing whatever they wanted. To stay in power the leader of North Korea has to follow the military-first principle and give the military what it wants.
Occasionally that means North Koreans starve. China doesn’t want that refugees come over the border and it has to deal with them so they sent food to North Korea to prevent famine.
The best way out is to educate the next generation of North Korean leaders in the West in countries like Switzerland and increase trading between North Korea and the outside so that you have rich and powerful North Korean businessmen that have an interest in cultural exchange. North Korean businessmen have an interest that employees of their companies have internet access.
US policy on the other hand favors economic sanction that weaken the business community and therefore shift more power to the military. Why? That policy of being tough on North Korea is beneficial for internal US politics.
Bush got point from his base for breaking the promises that Clinton made to North Korea and as a result North Korea got nuclear weapons.
China couldn’t do anything about it. They can’t prevent stupid US policy that strengthens those factors inside North Korea that wants nukes and biological weapons. China also has no way to put pressure on the North Korean military.
I know that China failed to stop North Korea from having atomic bombs
North Korea has biological and chemical weapons for a lot longer than it has nuclear weapons and likely has a larger stockpile.
Focusing on propaganda value ignores the internal politics of North Korea.
North Korea has powerful military. By it’s own admission they had some intelligence services that were doing whatever they wanted. To stay in power the leader of North Korea has to follow the military-first principle and give the military what it wants.
Occasionally that means North Koreans starve. China doesn’t want that refugees come over the border and it has to deal with them so they sent food to North Korea to prevent famine.
The best way out is to educate the next generation of North Korean leaders in the West in countries like Switzerland and increase trading between North Korea and the outside so that you have rich and powerful North Korean businessmen that have an interest in cultural exchange. North Korean businessmen have an interest that employees of their companies have internet access.
US policy on the other hand favors economic sanction that weaken the business community and therefore shift more power to the military. Why? That policy of being tough on North Korea is beneficial for internal US politics. Bush got point from his base for breaking the promises that Clinton made to North Korea and as a result North Korea got nuclear weapons.
China couldn’t do anything about it. They can’t prevent stupid US policy that strengthens those factors inside North Korea that wants nukes and biological weapons. China also has no way to put pressure on the North Korean military.
North Korea has biological and chemical weapons for a lot longer than it has nuclear weapons and likely has a larger stockpile.