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Beijing Chided Pyongyang, Declined U.S. Call to Stop Tehran Missile Sales, Cables Show
Nov 29, 2010
WSJ
By JEREMY PAGE in Beijing and JAY SOLOMON in Washington
China has expressed frustration with North Korea, with one official calling it a “spoiled child,” at the same time as brushing off U.S. requests to choke off the flow of military technology from Pyongyang to Tehran that helps to sustain the regime, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables.
One of the latest batches of cables released by WikiLeaks also quotes a South Korean official speculating that China might be able to accept reunification under South Korea’s leadership.
Another cable quotes a Chinese official telling a U.S. Embassy official after North Korea’s missile test last year that: “North Korea wanted to engage directly with the United States and was therefore ‘acting like a spoiled child’ to get the attention of the “adult.” The Guardian, one of five news organization that got early access to the cables, names the Chinese official as Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei.
Another cable, according to the Guardian, described Mr. He in September 2009 playing down a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Pyongyang, telling the U.S. deputy secretary of state, James Steinberg: “We may not like them.…[but] they [North Korea] are a neighbour.”
One cable cites a Chinese ambassador saying the North’s nuclear activity is “a threat to the whole world’s security.”
The cables offer a unique window on the extent of China’s frustration with its old Communist ally, which triggered a fresh crisis on the Korean peninsula when it shelled a South Korean island last week.
But they also reflect continuing U.S. concern that China isn’t doing enough to prevent proliferation of materials and technology, including some to and from North Korea, which could help Iranian weapons programs.
China declined to act on multiple U.S. requests that it stop shipments of ballistic-missile components from North Korea to Iran on commercial flights via the Beijing airport in 2007, according to one of the first batch of cables made public Sunday.
Another cable showed that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked China in February to act on intelligence that Iran was trying to buy gyroscopes and carbon fiber for its ballistic missiles from Chinese companies. According to one more cable, Mrs. Clinton expressed concern in May that Chinese companies were supplying Iran with precursors for chemical weapons.
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