In China Confusion Thank Korea United: Wikileaks

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 22:49 AM 
WASHINGTON (AFP) - China, long consideredas protector of North Korea, increasingly unsure of its own influence and willsupport the unification of the peninsula if the regime collapsed, said the leakU.S. documents on Monday.In an expansive banquet last year, ambassadorof China to Kazakhstan reveals that Beijing considers the programnuclear North Korea as "very troublesome," according to a memopembocor obtained by the site Wikileaks.Ambassador Cheng Gouping "said China hopespeaceful reunification in the long term, but China hopes the two countrieswill remain separate in the short term, "said the leaked telegram by the AmbassadorRichard Hoagland and the U.S. large print repeated by the British newspaper TheGuardian.In another telegram is reproduced in The New York Times,a Chinese official who removed his name said that Beijing believesNorth Korea had "gone too far" after a trialboth nuclear and fired a missile.The official told a U.S. diplomat"That Chinese officials have expressed displeasure to Chinacolleagues and has been pressing North Korea (North Korea) to return to the tablenegotiations, "he said."Unfortunately," Chinese officials said suchquoted, "the protests had no effect.""'The only country that can make progresswith North Korea is the United States, '"said China's pajabatquoted as saying.Wikileaks has made infuriated the U.S. government againstmassive spread of sensitive data. Memos to the public afterNorth Korean border rained gunfire on an island in South Korea,killed four people and increase tensions.Impasse arises when the leader of North Korea's reclusive KimJong-Il, who suffered a stroke, preparing to hand over power to sonyoungest male lesser-known Kim Jong-Un, which is believed to still old20s years.Dai Bingguo, China's state counselor, is quoted in a telegramwhen told U.S. officials after a visit to Pyongyangthat Kim Jong-Il has lost weight but "appeared quite healthyand still have a 'sharp mind'. "Kim said he still drank alcohol, saying thatjust a matter of scheduling to stop North Korean leader fromparticipation by the guests in one of the legendary drinking sessions,according to the telegram.Many U.S. experts believe that China wants to maintainstatus quo for North Korea, worried that if the collapse would trigger a flood of refugeesand bring a united Korea and U.S. allies to the border.But a senior official of South Korea Chun Yung-Woo toldin a telegram saying that Chinese officials are more"Advanced" has come to believe that North Korea "lessvaluable to China as a buffer state "since the nuclear testfirst in 2006.Chun also said that South Koreans believe that KoreaNorth "has collapsed economically" and will "collapse inpolitical "two to three years after Kim's death.Chun, who was deputy foreign minister and nowa national security adviser, said that China "is very lessinfluence on North Korea than that of the believer. ""Beijing's 'no desire' to useeconomic influence to force a change in policiesPyongyang and the leader of (North Korea) know about it, "he said.However, another telegram quoted a Chinese official who"With strong ignore any suggestion that the system will collapsewhen Kim Jong-Il to go. "Unnamed officials were "warned that theU.S. experts do not think North Korea will explode after Kim Jong-Ildied, "he said.


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