China won't save North Korea if country goes to war, says former PLA general

[KimJongUn]

China won't save North Korea if country goes to war, says former PLA general

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 02 December, 2014, 3:38pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 02 December, 2014, 4:22pm

Agence France-Presse in Beijing

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un peers through a periscope of a submarine during an inspection of the Korean People's Army Navan Unit in June. Photo: Reuters

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un peers through a periscope of a submarine during an inspection of the Korean People's Army Navan Unit in June. Photo: Reuters

China will not step in to save neighbouring North Korea if the Pyongyang regime collapses or starts a war, a retired People’s Liberation Army general has said, possibly signalling Beijing’s waning patience with its wayward, nuclear-armed ally.

“China is not a saviour,” Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of the Nanjing military region, wrote in the Global Times newspaper, which is close to the Communist Party.

“Should North Korea really collapse, not even China can save it,” he said in a contribution to the nationalist tabloid’s Chinese-language website, which was published on Monday.

The outspoken Wang has made critical comments about North Korea before and it was not clear if his words indicated a policy shift regarding Pyongyang.

China has long been the isolated North’s key ally and aid provider. Beijing came to Pyongyang’s aid in the 1950-53 Korean War, when its intervention against United States-led UN forces defending South Korea helped seal a stalemate that has lasted to this day.

China’s role has grown as the North’s economy has shrunk in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union – with which Pyongyang had close trade and aid ties – more than 20 years ago.

In the two decades since, Beijing has moved to develop diplomatic relations and booming trade ties with Seoul, Pyongyang’s bitter rival. President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye have exchanged visits, while Xi and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have so far kept their distance.

Wang said China would not get involved in any new war on the Korean peninsula.

“China cannot influence the situation on the Korean peninsula … China has no need to light a fire and get burnt. Whoever provokes a conflagration bears responsibility,” he wrote. “Now there is no more ’socialist camp’. It is not necessary for China’s younger generation to fight a war for another country.”

Wang criticised the North for its nuclear development, using it as an example of how the country’s interests can differ from China’s and saying it had “already brought about the serious threat of nuclear contamination in China’s border area”.

But he also slammed Western countries for “demonising” North Korea and interfering in its internal affairs in the name of human rights. “China absolutely does not meddle,” he wrote.

Beijing will “support what should be supported and oppose what should be opposed” regarding the North, Wang said, indicating that China was not ready to completely give up on its troublesome neighbour.

China will neither “court” nor “abandon” North Korea, he wrote. “This should be China’s basic attitude.”

 

[KimJongUn]

Bloody traitor and unreliable. :oIo:

 

[Agoraphobic]

PRC is becoming more and more involved with the rest of the world and is slowly becoming a global nation, whereas North Korea under that fatso is isolationist and still living in the period of the cold war. China is open to trade with other countries on the planet and should not get mired in that fatso's selfish ideology and personal grandiose, they have over a billion people to think about. Why should they give a shit about fat Kim? I hope his own subjects depose him.

Cheers!

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

if Nth korea collapse and go democratic................China will sweat, scared its citizens will also wanna go democratic.......

that's why China spend trillions to artificially boost economy..............otherwise citizens won't put up with communism anymore

 

[Agoraphobic]

China will not sweat, but the CCCP will. Sometime in the coming future, the Central Party will have to relook at her hold on power and allow some leeway to spread the power lower down. At the moment, most of her people are busy amassing material wealth and will eventually demand what money cannot buy. With such a big country to look after, the Central Party will have to decentralize the control, how it will take place, I don't know, but eventually it will happen, the country doesn't and cannot allow all the rich blokes to be funnelling money out of the country for too long a period. BTW, I wouldn't use the word communism to describe PRC anymore, they're more capitalistic now. As for North Korea, I don't know, don't care. If I were a citizen there, I'd bloody defect. Say bye-bye to the beloved leader.

Cheers!

if Nth korea collapse and go democratic................China will sweat, scared its citizens will also wanna go democratic.......

that's why China spend trillions to artificially boost economy..............otherwise citizens won't put up with communism anymore