Chinese special envoy Song Tao (second from left) meets with Choi Ryong-hae, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party at the Mansudae Assembly in Pyongyang on Nov. 17. (taken from the Chinese Communist Party International Liaison Department website)
Oki Nagai, Nikkei Asian Review: Squabble over Chinese envoy hints at North Korea's anxiety
Pyongyang sought sanctions relief as part of visit as pressure mounts.
BEIJING -- North Korea made numerous attempts to compel China to ease sanctions in connection with the recent visit by a Chinese envoy, several sources say, signaling cracks in the decades-long friendship between the two nations amid mounting international pressure against Pyongyang's nuclear and missile development.
China traditionally sends a special envoy to the country following the twice-in-a-decade Communist Party National Congress. But when Beijing first discussed this year's trip, Pyongyang demanded that economic sanctions be eased in exchange, pressing China for siding with U.S. demands that the North abandon its nuclear program.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese hold all the cards. The problem is that I do not think the North Korean leadership really appreciate how exposed that they are.
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