WikiLeaks Shows That China Is Ready To Abandon the North Korean Regime
According to U.S. embassy cables leaked to WikiLeaks China is signaling its willingness to distance itself from its “spoiled child,” North Korea, and also to accept the reunification of the Korean peninsula.
This release comes at a time when the tension is high between the two Korean countries, a week after the North regime bombarded a South Korean island killing two South Korean marines and two civilians.
China refused to condemn the attack at first, but it had to bend today to the American pressure and called for “emergency consultations,” inviting for this purpose a representative of North Korean regime to Beijing.
Though critical of the US sanctions against the Communist regime in Pyongyang, China is concerned that the nuclear testing of the North Korean regime would create instability in the region, and also that the demise of the dictator would cause a power struggle.
According to WikiLeaks, a senior South Korean official said that China would favor the reunification of the two Koreas under Seoul’s control.
Another document shows a Chinese vice-president saying that North Korea is acting like a “spoiled child,” which is trying to get the attention of the Americans with the attacks similar to that on the South Korean island.
Chinese officials say in the cables leaked to WikiLeaks that North Korean regime’s nuclear program is a threat to the entire world’s security, and that if the dictator in Pyongyang dies China will be able to accommodate some 300,000 people coming from the North Korea, but that it would be forced to use the army to seal off the common border.
In February this year, a top Chinese official said that the new generation of Chinese leaders do not consider the Korean regime as an indispensable ally.
The Chinese leaders do not admit the idea of another conflict in the region over Korea, and since the Communist North Korea is already in economical collapse, the political chaos is expected as soon as the dictator dies.
Another aspect of the relations between China and Korea is that they were overestimated over the years. The leaks show multiple tensions between the two allies.
