Taiwan Not Happy with China's Support of the Norks

The "Rogue Province" is not particularly happy with the old country's support of a dangerous regime whose nukes are not likely to be well-secured when/if the house of cards tumbles down.

The decision by the People's Republic of China to continue to offer resolute support and substantive assistance to North Korea's dictator Kim Jung-li last week should spark a re-evaluation of Beijing's role as a "responsible stakeholder" in the world community.
The visit by the reclusive North Korean autocrat on his private armored train last week followed the still mysterious sinking of a South Korean corvette with the loss of 46 lives off the western North Korean coast in late March that has intensified tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul.

Besides reports of ill health, Kim Jung-il faces a formidable array of problems, including the failure of a major currency reform program, the fall-out of the mysterious sinking of a South Korean navy corvette off the western North Korean coast in late March and the murky prospects for succession to his third and youngest son, 27 - year old Kim Jong-un.

The PRC's authoritarian Chinese Communist Party regime offers the only possible source of succour for Kim Jung-il and did not disappoint its pariah client.

In exchange for pro forma promise by Kim to return to the stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, PRC State Chairman Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao not only reaffirmed the "friendship forged in blood" between the PRC and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea but also apparently provided enough substantive assistance to make Kim "feel satisfied."

By: Brant