PREVIEW: NORTH KOREA CHINA PRC: Colleague David Maxwell comments on how it suits Beijing to have the DPRK supplying Russia with ammunition for the Ukraine conflict. More to come.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. Conversation with colleague David Maxwell. How does North Korea suit the |
| 0:07.7 | purposes of Beijing, the People's Republic of China? Is it a hindrance? Especially now that it's |
| 0:15.5 | working so apparently closely with Russia. Is it a threat? Does it augment? David gives a very careful answer. |
| 0:24.9 | Beijing, Pyongyang, and Moscow. That's three parts of what is called crink. The other being |
| 0:32.2 | Iran. More of this tonight. Well, I think, you know, we've heard the foreign minister of China say that they do not want |
| 0:41.7 | Russia to lose, that they want Russia to win in Ukraine. |
| 0:44.3 | And so I think understanding that, North Korea's actions are an excellent contribution to ensuring |
| 0:53.4 | that Ukraine or that gives Russia the chance |
| 0:57.7 | that they will be able to win in Ukraine. And so I think that North Korea offers Beijing |
| 1:05.8 | a cutout to provide lethal aid to Putin, and they're the lightning rod for the attention. |
| 1:15.8 | And so, you know, China can continue to trade and provide funding or, you know, other aspects |
| 1:23.7 | and not have to provide lethal aid because North Korea is doing that for them. |
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