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Opinion: A Chinese takeover of North Korea? Unlikely

By Sun, Dec 25, 2011 12:59AM UTC View Comments Kim Jong-un pays respect to his father, the late Kim Jong-il on December 20 (Korean Central TV still)

With characteristic alarm, Georgetown professor and former George W. Bush administration advisor Victor Cha, sounded a warning in the New York Times about a possible Chinese takeover of North Korea. Although Cha correctly views China as the biggest non-Korean obstacle to Korean reunification*, noting that maintaining a divided Korea has long been Chinese policy (certainly since it became apparent in the...

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