Why would the North Korean regime jeopardize its relationship with China, the only country that could bring it down immediately, just to execute one official? Assuming that Kim is rational, he must have had good reason to believe that the Chinese lifeline would be sustained, even if he executed China’s favorite North Korean interlocutor.
为何朝鲜政权要破坏其与能够立刻让其崩溃的唯一国家中国，处决张成泽呢？假定金正恩是理性的，那么他一定有很好的理由认为，即使他处决了中国所喜欢的朝鲜传话人，仍能够维持中国生命线。