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Balazs Szalontai
Balazs Szalontai is a historian and professor at Korea University, Division of Public Sociology and Korean Unification.
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Analysis How, and why, China and North Korea have drifted apartChina's pursuit of other partners in East Asia has strained the old alliance On 23 February 2017, the Korean Central News Agency published an article that condemned China’s newest economic sanctions against North Korea in a tone that Pyongyang had not used about Beijing since the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. “A neighboring country, which often claims itself to be a ‘friendly neighbor’, […] has unhesitatingly taken inhumane steps such as totally blocking foreign trade related to the improvement of people’s living standard,” KCNA argued. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |