How to Approach the China-North Korea Relationship

Publication Date: October 2006

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): David L. Asher

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Asia and the Pacific

Type: Speech

Coverage: China Korea (North)

Abstract:

China has long served as a safe harbor for North Korean proliferation and illicit trading networks and a transport hub for these networks. The U.S. can work with China to spread capitalism in North Korea, even as we compel it to crack down on the North Korean elite and support for the North Korean's weapons of mass destruction programs.