Kim Jong Il's Challenge to China

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Author(s) Los Angeles Times editorial board
Source Los Angeles Times
Date October 10, 2006
URL http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nkorea10oct10,0,5937686.story
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Quotes-start.png "Chinese officials are said to roll their eyes in private at North Korean intransigence and to downplay their influence over Kim. Their act isn't terribly convincing. China is North Korea's last friend and ally and its biggest supplier of food and fuel. In 2003, it briefly shut off gas pipelines to make the point that Pyongyang had better agree to six-party negotiations over nuclear disarmament." Quotes-end.png


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