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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Interesting to note that Nth K has been threatened by both US and Russia to back off!.
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While the Soviet Union was a staunch ally of North Korea, Russia is quite the opposite. Russian relationships warmed slightly after Putin came to power, but once North Korea conducted a nuclear test they have been completely behind Western efforts to denuclearise the Peninsula. Russian has an interest in stability in the region to help develop it's isolated eastern areas.
China on the other hand, I fell has a bigger vested interest, which I think stems from the fact that Taiwan is still very much an independant state. I get the feeling that China has about as much interest in reuiniting Korea as the USA has in reuniting Taiwan with China (despite it's 'one China' policy)
All just pawns to the big powers imho
