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099607
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2010.
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The evolution of Sino-North Korean relations is an interesting historical phenomenon worth careful reexamination. The diplomatic documents recently declassified by the Chinese government shed new light on this old issue. Based on previous research and new information, the author finds that Sino-North Korean relations were closely related to Soviet-North Korean relations: The two sets of bilateral relations ran in opposite directions. Moreover, the rise and fall of North Korea's relations with China were determined by the political division on the Korean peninsula and Sino-Soviet polemics, and in the competition for influence between ideological and security concerns, the latter won out. Throughout, North Korea was not weak; it was in control of its relations with its two major allies.
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108570
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2011.
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What has happened to North Korea-China relations since autumn 2009 is nothing
less than a renewal of the alliance. This is a sea change, brought about first of all
by the deterioration of Kim Jong Il's health and then by all the resulting turmoil
of his regime's instability and difficulties. Both sides' policy behavior toward the
other became a "new game," dictated by a sort of dire emergency, and placed them
in a tightly fixed structure reducing much of the scope for a strategy adjustment.
Pyongyang's new game has been characterized prominently by volatility or a
malfunctioning of the "rational" policymaking capacity of the ailing dictator.
Volatile desperation dominates behavior in the leadership succession, in military
affairs, the nuclear arms program, its posture toward the United States and ROK,
respectively, and in its relations with China. The new game can be defined as one
between a volatile DPRK and a relatively loyal ally with an anxious strategy that
is cornered in its relations with the ROK and the United States on the North
Korean issue. China's relationship with the DPRK is the most complicated of all,
and in a sense disabling. As to China-ROK cooperation on the North Korea issue,
the above factors unfortunately dim the prospects; however, there is still reason
for optimism if efforts continue to be made to find a resolution to the problem.
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119393
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