USA TODAY: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il’s secretive trip into China aboard his armored train took him to Chinese companies making cars, electronics, information technology and solar panels, prompting some experts to say that the Chinese leadership that has been supporting his regime is trying to send him a message…
Don’t hold your breath for Chinese-style change, said Cai Jian, a Korea expert at Shanghai’s Fudan University. ..
North Korea may be facing one of its most severe famines in years at a time when South Korea and the United States have withheld food shipments because of the North’s attacks against the South, its human rights violations and banishment of humanitarian workers who were overseeing fair distribution of food aid… (more)
