Beijing officially announced that Kim Jung Un and his wife had made an unofficial visit, after he he had left for home. So is there no daylight between China and North Korea going into his summits with South Korea and the US? Given Kim’s sense of betrayal over China’s support for tough sanctions what did he get from this trip? Is this the end of Chinese support for any intensification of the “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign, so long as he doesn’t test again? Or will China now try to reduce the pressure?
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Beijing officially announced that Kim Jung Un and his wife had made an unofficial visit, after he he had left for home. So is there no daylight between China and North Korea going into his summits with South Korea and the US? Given Kim’s sense of betrayal over China’s support for tough sanctions what did he get from this trip? Is this the end of Chinese support for any intensification of the “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign, so long as he doesn’t test again? Or will China now try to reduce the pressure?
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