Chinese Fears of North Korean Nukes

Times of London ^ | October 8, 2006 | Michael Sheridan

[Thud]

Which is why Peanut has been so nervous about train trips to Peking.

[JasonC]

Russia probably connived at Kim's recent nuclear test and they are responsible for that. (Notice their ambassador is calling it a 10kt explosion when everyone measured .5 kt? That's because he went by the spec they told him, and the rest went by the actual tremor, which showed a "squib").

But Chinese responsibility for North Korea goes beyond "encouraging". There are a million dead Chinese men buried on North Korea soil, who kept it North Korean after the United Nations freed it. China is morally responsible for every crime that resulted, for the past 2 generations.

This is your mess. Clean it up already.

[kinoxi]

I see your point in general, but I don't think that the guards had many realistic options in this case.

[JasonC]

Sure they do, let them in, feed them, help spirit them away from the border to safer locations.

In the US, men of conscious ran an "underground railroad" to help escaped slaves to freedom. They might easily contrive the like. Some probably have, quietly enough, human nature being what it is.

[JasonC]

Err conscience - can't type tonight...

[kinoxi]

Some probably have, quietly enough, human nature being what it is.

I agree completely. The official version is what we're reading about though. I am quite sure most of the help given to the refugees would be subject to extraordinarily harsh punishments from the chicoms if publicly known. I think the guards were under a spotlight here and had no choice.