The Evolving Strategic Importance of North Korea to China’s Expansionist Ambitions

The Evolving Strategic Importance of North Korea to China’s Expansionist Ambitions
A photo provided by the North Korean regime shows what it says a flight test of a new solid-fuel intermediate-range in North Korea on Jan. 14, 2024. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
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Over the past two years, North Korea has conducted multiple missile and rocket tests, seeking to further extend the range of their limited nuclear weapons. At the start of this year, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un changed the constitution and abandoned the goal of peaceful reunification with South Korea. Such aggressive moves have undermined efforts to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula.

A New Axis of Evil 

Yuan Hongbin, the former head of the law school at Peking University and renowned Chinese dissident based in Australia, stated on NTD’s Chinese language program “Pinnacle View” that throughout World War II, the Communist Party of Korea was essentially a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It was only after the war, when the Soviet Union forcibly intervened, that the Communist Party of Korea gained some autonomy.
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