Chinese must pluck Kim from nuke perch

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Author(s)	Ted Galen Carpenter
Source	New York Daily News
Date	October 10, 2006
URL	http://www.nydailynews.com/10-10-2006/news/story/460055p-387053c.html
Quote	"Washington should assure Beijing that, if China subverts Kim's government, the United States will withdraw its forces and end its alliance with South Korea. That alliance is a wasting asset. Increasingly, Seoul aligns its foreign policy with that of Beijing rather than Washington, so it is long past time for an amicable divorce."

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This item argues for the position China should pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions on the topic North Korean nuclear crisis.