Had that happened, economic assistance from the US and Japan would have flowed into North Korea, enabling the regime to manage the country’s moribund economy much better without initiating reforms, which the military appears to regard as dangerous.
En las primeras etapas de esta sucesión inestable, el comportamiento de China ha sido el esperado; está apoyando al régimen para asegurar la estabilidad de su vecino país con armas nucleares.