The Trump administration sees Beijing as the key to controlling Pyongyang, which depends on China for its economic survival and for 90 percent of its trade. North Korean cultHours earlier in an address to the South Korean parliament, Trump painted a dark picture of Pyongyang as an oppressive, despotic regime. Trump gave a preview of what he will ask Beijing to do regarding North Korea. Trump will also decide at the end of his Asian tour next Monday whether to re-designate North Korea as a “state-sponsor of terrorism”, the White House said. In what he said was a direct message to the young leader, he told him: “North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned.

Source: Manila Times November 08, 2017 09:22 UTC