CHINA
Criticism of Beijing’s North Korea Policy Comes From Unlikely Place: China
Chris Buckley, THE NEW YORK TIMES
When China’s best-known historian of the Korean War, Shen Zhihua, recently laid out his views on North Korea, astonishment rippled through the audience. China, he said with a bluntness that is rare in the country, had fundamentally botched its policy on the divided Korean Peninsula. China’s bond with North Korea’s Communist leaders formed even before Mao Zedong’s decision in 1950 to send People’s Liberation Army soldiers to fight alongside them in the Korean War. Mao famously said the two sides were “as close as lips …read more
Source: Victims of Communism
