#PRC: Time and leverage to tell Beijing to arrest Pyongyang. John Bolton.
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🗓️ 28 January 2023
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#PRC: Time and leverage to tell Beijing to arrest Pyongyang. John Bolton.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/25/blinken-call-chinese-bluff-on-north-korea/
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| 0:56.0 | We're looking for a way to make it to Beijing. |
| 0:59.0 | Why this is of significance is that you might not have noticed with all the missiles landing in Keefe, |
| 1:05.0 | that a lot of missiles have been fired out of North Korea. |
| 1:08.0 | So many so that you wonder, is South Korea paying attention? |
| 1:12.0 | It's South Korea ready to rearm. |
| 1:14.0 | But first, John, you recommend that the Secretary in his visit to Beijing take this opportunity to be blunt with China about young, how blunt, to do what? |
| 1:25.0 | Many years, the United States has fallen prey to the line of China's propaganda. |
| 1:31.0 | That China also is very concerned about North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. |
| 1:37.0 | They see it as a threat to stability in Northeast Asia. |
| 1:41.0 | They worry about it will harm China's economic growth. |
| 1:44.0 | And so they want to work with the US, Japan, South Korea, Russia, others to try to solve this problem of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. |
| 1:54.0 | Whereas in fact, I think the whole time the leaders in Beijing have known full well. |
| 2:00.0 | North Korea is not a threat to China. |
| 2:02.0 | It is a threat to Japan, South Korea, the United States, Taiwan, and really a proliferation threat around the world. |
| 2:09.0 | And they were happy to have us diverted by North Korea. |
| 2:14.0 | And it was certainly proper to be concerned about North Korea, no doubt about it, all the while. |
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