North Korea

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(1) 对比新闻：金正日和他的女人们. VOA Chiese, Dec 20, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... omen-135919603.html

Quote:

"由于朝鲜当局不邀请外界参加金正日葬礼，中国已邀请即将接位的金正恩到中国访问。

"与其刚刚离世的父亲相比，他更是个谜。'金正恩今年大约28岁。他的生日、母亲和婚姻状况都不为人所知。'

My comment: there is no need to read the rest.

(2) Mark Landler and Choe Sang-Hun, In Kim’s Death, an Extensive Intelligence Failure. New York Times, Dec 20, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/2 ... lligence&st=cse

My comment: Please read the first three paragraphs only.

(3) 台湾电视新闻模仿朝鲜李春姬遭批致歉. BBC Chiese, Dec 20, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _tw_nkorea_tv.shtml

(4) 英媒：从金正日之死看中美实力角斗. BBC Chiese, Dec 20, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _kim_china_us.shtml
("而美国政界虽然坚持对朝鲜问题用外交手段解决，但奥巴马政府和前政府相比，却缺乏跟平壤接触的热情")

, which is a Chinese-language summary of

Geoff Dyer in Washington, China Tension With US Poised to Trigger Wider Power Play. Financial Times (FT), Dec 20, 2011.

Quote:

"Leaked US diplomatic cables last year gave the impression that the ground was being prepared for a grand accomodation between China and the US over the future of the Korean peninsula. One of them quoted a Chinese official saying that North Korea 'now had little value to China as a buffer state.

"The reality, however, is very different. Chinese support for North Korea is probably one of the most controversial aspects of the country's foreign policy.

"Many young Chinese are embarrassed to support a regime that seems to represent the worst aspects of Maoism. 'Does the system of hereditary monarchy belong to socialism with Korean characteristics?', as one Chiese microblogger put it yesterday. And plenty of younger officials see the burgeoning economic ties with South Korea as far more important than sustainingsclerotic Pyongyang.

"In Washington, the Obama administration is much less interested in reaching out to renegade regimes than it was three years ago.

"there are some signs that political mood is shifting, at least on the right. The contempt for the North Korean regime is now laced with frustration at what many see as Beijing's refusal genuinely to co-operate on ending Pyongyang's nuclear programme. The death of Kim Jong-il, some believe, is teh perfect moment to end the charade of working togetehr with Beijing and to push more openly for regime change in North Korea.

My comment:
(a) The quotation in BBC Chinese is patently wrong: FT compares the Obama administration now with three years ago, not with the previous administration 前政府.
(b) There is no need to read the rest.