There are new reports that the meeting last month between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping resulted in a commitment by North Korea to resume the suspended six-party talks over the North's denuclearization. Those talks, which ended in 2009, included China, North Korea, Russia, the U.S., South Korea and Japan. While it's not clear about the timing of the talks, it is clear that China wants to make sure it plays a major role in developments on the Korean peninsula. Roughly 90% of all goods going to North Korea come from China, and China has been long seen as North Korea's protector.
On March 8, unfit sociopath and Very Stable Genius Donald "Rump" Trump, desperate to distract attention from the Mueller investigation and the Stormy Daniels affair, jumped on a comment from a visiting South Korean delegation that Kim would meet with him and recklessly agreed before his national security team could restrain him.
If President Xi, who's also not happy about Rump's ill-advised tariffs, has convinced Kim to put the six party talks before any one-on-one meeting with Rump, that's a significant show of China's power and maturity, and his distrust of two toddlers, one of whom thinks he's the greatest negotiator, cutting destabilizing deals. It would certainly upstage the volatile Rump, grasping for any "glory" at any cost.
(photo: Reuters/KCNA)
