re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

No question that China played a major role in initiating and implementing this. I assume this is also part of their own geopolitical repositioning/restructuring.

I can understand that there was a time when they did not want a major capitalist economy bucked up square against their border, but they have much more to gain from making NK a joint development venture with SK than they have to fear from creeping capitalism.

Hell, China is a capitalist economy, though with “Chinese characteristics.”