North Korea is notorious for its outlandish and apocalyptic threats
against the U.S., but it has now delivered a rare verbal salvo against
China, a country seen as one of its only allies on the planet.
Kim Jong Un's regime scolded Beijing, alleging
it acted with "insincerity and betrayal" in comments about Pyongyang's
burgeoning nuclear and ballistic-missile program.
The neighbors — one a vast, economic juggernaut, the other an
impoverished, isolated pariah — have long been locked in an uneasy
balancing act.
But last week's comments may be an indication that this six-decade symbiosis is in danger of falling apart.
As Jia Qingguo, dean of the Department of
Diplomacy at China's Peking University, put it: "China and North Korea's
relationship is at a crossroads."
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