Overestimating China's Help With North Korea
June 20, 2005
The Bush administration should not expect China to "deliver" North Korea explains Ted Carpenter.
Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill recently told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States did not believe that China was putting sufficient pressure on North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program.
Washington continues to believe, as it has since the North Korean crisis began in late 2002, that China is the key to solving the impasse. The administration apparently expects China to exert whatever diplomatic and economic pressure is needed to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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Posted by coalition at June 20, 2005 11:51 AM
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