POLS 396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Confucianism, Class Conflict, North Korea
29 Sep 2013
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Pols396 week 4 readings part 1 (china and north korea: a fragile relationship born of strategic convenience) 1) it is the main bridge for it to reach other main players in that region. It serves as an important communications hub linking the dprk and its hostile neighbors. 2) the only country that maintains a good relationship with both koreas. Thus the two see china as a useful mediator in preventing some unexpected events from happening. 3) china is the only country that is still under obligation to offer military assistance to north korea. 4) because of the current economic crisis in the north, china is thus an indispensible provider of crucial aid to the famine ridden people in the country. The paper is an attempt to demonstrate that beneath the surface of the alliance between them the two countries share very few common interests.
