Changchun, China — \u201cWe are all on a train heading for our death. The train is being driven by China. The driver plans to jump from the train after letting the cars, in which we (North Korea), South Chosun, Japan and the U.S. are riding, fall off a cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n
And that is how Choi expressed North Korean elite thinking about China. <\/p>\n
Choi was a professor in a university, a man who studied the social sciences in North Korea for two decades, but now he is a trader in China. <\/p>\n
The North Korean elite\u2019s anti-Chinese sentiment that he described came as a real shock. Nevertheless, he said that although he has a more critical point of view of the Kim Jong Il regime than his colleagues, in general, opinions of China are the same as his own. <\/p>\n
China has a so-called blood alliance with North Korea, is a country which fought for the North during the Korea War, and is the current life support system which provides it with the basic resources to maintain its system. After the second nuclear test, as international sanctions were being strengthened, Pyongyang tried to maintain its friendship with China in order to avoid isolation.<\/p>\n
However, Choi did not hesitate to say, \u201cChina is more vicious than America,\u201d before explaining, \u201cWe have been standing against America so far, but now people worry about living as a slave of China.\u201d<\/p>\n
When The Daily NK\u2019s reporter asked why China is blocking out the pressure from neighboring countries, including the U.S., he noted, \u201cThis is only because they need to do it for the sake of their interests, not for our security.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cThis is not just my idea, but that of almost every intellectual.\u201d He implied that significant concerns about the contradiction between Kim Jong Il\u2019s nuclear plans and the Chinese role exist. <\/p>\n
So, he claims, \u201cSince he figured out the Chinese tactics, the Upper (Kim Jong Il) has been doing his best to escape from that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25c6 Virtual scenarios which concern the North Korean elite<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n Choi mentioned, \u201cSince the nuclear test, the wariness of university students and intellectuals towards China has risen. Many of them think that we will be spoiled by China.\u201d<\/p>\n He emphasized, \u201cThe Chinese strategy towards our possession of nuclear weapons is to place itself as a world leader, surpassing the U.S. by using the Kim Jong Il regime. China is using our Republic\u2019s adventurism.\u201d<\/p>\n Choi pointed out, \u201cChina has manipulated us to increase our stockpiles of nuclear weapons and missiles in practice while pretending to put pressure on us from the outside. On the one hand, they lead North Korea to obtain more nuclear weapons and missile by increasing the sense of crisis on the Korean Peninsula. On the other hand, they let us breathe so that the Kim Jong Il regime doesn\u2019t collapse. <\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Changchun, China — \u201cWe are all on a train heading for our death. The train is being driven by China. The driver plans to jump from the train after letting the cars, in which we (North Korea), South Chosun, Japan and the U.S. are riding, fall off a cliff.\u201d And that is how Choi expressed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":10409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis-and-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\n