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China and the Prospects of Denuclearization of North Korea

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Authors

Wang, Fei-Ling

Issue Date
2018-11
Publisher
The Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University
Citation
Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol.6 No.2, pp. 267-288
Keywords
Chinese foreign policySino-U.S. relationsdenuclearization,China and the two Koreas
Abstract
This article interprets and analyzes the role of China in and the prospects of denuclearization of North Korea. Driven by its ruling partys peculiar political interest of resisting, reducing, and replacing American power at the expense of its national interest of cooperating with the United States, Beijing has been alternatively facilitating (somewhat) and fettering (mostly) North Korean denuclearization to make the cause unavoidably long and arduous, if doable at all. The latest resumption of Beijing-Pyongyang ties, in reaction to the Trump-Kim summit, suggests that a fundamental change in Beijings strategic stance on the North Korean nuclear issue has taken place, making genuinely enabling peaceful denuclearization of the DPRK rather difficult as it would require literally a political change-of-heart in Beijing.
ISSN
2288-2693 (print)
2288-2707 (online)
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/153903
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18588/201811.00a073
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