The Trump administration sees Beijing as the key to controlling North Korea, which depends on China for its economic survival and for 90% of its trade. “North Korea is a country ruled as a cult,” the US leader declared. Trump gave a preview of what he will ask Beijing to do regarding North Korea. In what he said was a direct message to the country’s young leader, he told him: “North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. Labelling Kim a “cruel dictator” could be “enough to provoke North Korea because the North Korean system puts the most importance on the dignity of its leadership”, said Yang Moo-Jin from Seoul’s University of North Korean Studies.

Source: Hindustan Times November 08, 2017 06:45 UTC