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Many of Andrei Lankov's comments here are perceptive, but he is an expert on Korea and particularly North Korean politics, but not on Chinese politics. He appears unfamiliar with Chinese-language sources that demonstrate an easing of the PRC central government's restrictions on sale of nuclear-related technology and parts to North Korea starting in the early 1990s as a way of retaliating against the West for sanctions on the PRC related to the Beijing Massacre of 1989. The transfer of nuclear technology and manufacturing equipment from the PRC to the DPRK since the early 1990s are not a matter of wrongdoing by merely local officials and local business executives, as Lankov seems to suggest. There is no way that PRC central government officials could have been unaware of these transfers and sales of PRC nuclear technology to North Korea for two and a half decades.
Oct 01, 2016 12:25 PM
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