China supplies North Korea with about 80% of its fuel, almost 40% of its foodstuffs. China could send a message to Pyongang. Then again China can also send a message to the west, in this case special trade concessions. The fact that North Korea spends 25% of its GDP on military hardware, sustaining an army of one million plus. The past famines in which two million died, should only wake up those in the west, for North Korea is not going to surrender one iota. From Moscow, comes words of a possible conflict. |
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