>>2635556>and China's dedication to keeping the DPRK alive despite US sanctions that is the reason we have to thank for the DPRK still being hereOh boy you need to brush up on your 2010s DPRK-PRC relations history comrade!
Xi enters leadership in 2012. He launches an anti-corruption campaign, the last cliques relevant to this period end in 2014, then another round not for international matters, starts in 2025.
Direct search terms that take you to relevant information online:
"2013 China resolutely opposes DPRK nuclear tests",
"2016 [China] strongly urge the DPRK side to remain committed to its denuclearization"
"February 2016 United States and China sanctions on DPRK: abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes"
2017, January: The Trump administration, having campaigned on starting a trade war with China and already recruited Peter Navarro, enters office. Summation so far: CPC under Xi's leadership has now both gone through relevant anti-corruption campaigns, which have been finished for years for the relevant departments, launched sanctions and denuclearization campaign against the DPRK in coalition with western imperialism, neoliberal Democrats at helm (under which the Obama admin. overthrew Libya), a change in US govt has happened.
Now pay close attention to the next few years:"2017, February: China bans import of DPRK coal for the remainder of the year" ->
DPRK public criticism of PRC policy over the course of 2017, source KCNA (DPRK state news agency): "this country [China], styling itself
a big power, is dancing to the tune of the US while defending its mean behaviour with such excuses that it was meant not to have a negative impact on the living of the people in the DPRK but to check its nuclear program", "
a string of absurd and reckless remarks are now heard from China every day only to render the present bad situation tenser", "China had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations", "Chinese [sanctions are] an undisguised threat to an honest-minded neighboring country which has a long history and tradition of friendship", "
The DPRK will never beg for the maintenance of friendsPost too long. Click here to view the full text.