[GOP_1900AD]

Beltway insider suffering from mental impaction:

"The United States and China do have a shared view that the North Korean nuclear programme is not acceptable and that the Korean Peninsula must not have nuclear weapons."

Common sense thinker:

"No they don't!"

[maui_hawaii]

The "shared view" is only valid in a very narrow and short term sense. Anything beyond the next six months and/or the immediate fit throwing would be foolish to characterize as "a shared view"...

[JasonC]

Actually, the Chinese pay off the NKs and for most of the last decade so have we. The Chinese don't confront their NK clients, and we don't confront them either. We promised to build them light water reactors, and the Chinese send them chemicals to extract plutonium from used reactor fuel. Oops. He didn't mean that kind of "shared view", did he?

China uses NK as a plausible denial "cut out" of their own weapons proliferation activities. To NK itself, also to the middle east. If China actually wanted NK not to have nukes, they'd stop sending them stuff used to make nukes. And if they were serious about getting the NK regime to change course on anything, they'd cease aid and trade while opening the border - and NK would collapse as a country inside of 6 months.