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Posted on 09/09/2015 5:24:14 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea state media buries Xi message in snub to China
North Korea's top newspaper carried congratulatory messages from the leaders of Russia and Cuba on its front page Wednesday, relegating one from China's President Xi Jinping to page two, in what analysts described as a pointed snub to its traditional ally.
The messages were rote diplomatic missives that countries friendly to Pyongyang send every year on the anniversary of the founding of the North Korean state in 1948.
But while those from Russia's Vladimir Putin and Cuba's Raul Castro were splashed on page one of the party-run Rodong Sinmun, Xi's note only made it to the bottom half of the inside page.
Yang Moo-Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies, said the placement was a calculated brush-off that reflected Pyongyang's growing "resentment" towards Beijing.
"It publicly demotes China to third spot behind Russia and Cuba, even if China is still far and away the most critical ally," Yang said.
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“Ally” is stretching it - China has had enough of Little Kim’s act.
What! No congratulatory message from Barak Obama
and the democrat party apparatus?
The ONE country that aberrant nation CANNOT afford to alienate.
The Norks must have a good stock of chow stuck away for winter...
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