The problem with America, England and even Australia telling China to get tough on North Korea DPRK is that although China is the land neighbour of North Korea (and all Korea) , China does not bully North Korea as would be expected say if one was a client state of the USA. China is at pains, philosophically, and traditionally, to not interfere...anywhere. This is why they are so strong now, and more advanced as a civilisation than any empire ever has been. China gave the Korean Peninsula Independence many centuries ago in the Dynasty times and China does not go back on its word. Independence is sacrosanct. At the same time, when the US invaded Korea and took the South, the Soviet Union basically went home from the North and China came in to support North Korea and much communal Chinese and Korean blood was spilled together in that Korean War against America and its allies in the 1950s. Chairman Mao's son was killed by the US in that war and his grave remains in North Korea. There is a strong kin attachment between China and all of Korea. Upon the establishment of the military border between North and South, the Chinese troops and administration just went home. Whereas in the South, The US military remains as an aggressive occupation force today. The great Manchurian human family kinship spreads across both China, Korea and into Russia's Siberia still...and as an ex PLA Colonel mentioned to me in Dalian, in China..."Yes, the DPRK is the worst human government on Earth, but they remain our blood brothers." That the US, apart from the annual buzzing of the North with weapons of mass destruction, would now send an aggressive navy into waters controlled by Korea, China, Russia and Japan, whose navies are all there, this is a very dodgy thing to do. America is not a neighbour, has no historical or kinship ties or responsibilities with any country there, has a history of provocations and attacks, and has a history of devastating anyone they don't like who doesn't have nuclear weapons...and this is why North Korea is very keen on getting some. The bravado of the DPRK is Korean Animist Machismo, equal in both South and North...and respected in both parts of that one Korea. The problem of Korea can only be worked out by the two Korean brothers, not by China, not by neighbour Russia, and certainly not by the very foreign and randomly vicious juvenile USA.

The problem with America, England and even Australia telling China to get tough on North Korea DPRK is that although China is the land neighbour of North Korea (and all Korea) , China does not bully North Korea as would be expected say if one was a client state of the USA.

China is at pains, philosophically, and traditionally, to not interfere...anywhere. This is why they are so strong now, and more advanced as a civilisation than any empire ever has been. China gave the Korean Peninsula Independence many centuries ago in the Dynasty times and China does not go back on its word. Independence is sacrosanct.

At the same time, when the US invaded Korea and took the South, the Soviet Union basically went home from the North and China came in to support North Korea and much communal Chinese and Korean blood was spilled together in that Korean War against America and its allies in the 1950s. Chairman Mao's son was killed by the US in that war and his grave remains in North Korea. There is a strong kin attachment between China and all of Korea. Upon the establishment of the military border between North and South, the Chinese troops and administration just went home. Whereas in the South, The US military remains as an aggressive occupation force today.

The great Manchurian human family kinship spreads across both China, Korea and into Russia's Siberia still...and as an ex PLA Colonel mentioned to me in Dalian, in China..."Yes, the DPRK is the worst human government on Earth, but they remain our blood brothers."

That the US, apart from the annual buzzing of the North with weapons of mass destruction, would now send an aggressive navy into waters controlled by Korea, China, Russia and Japan, whose navies are all there, this is a very dodgy thing to do.

America is not a neighbour, has no historical or kinship ties or responsibilities with any country there, has a history of provocations and attacks, and has a history of devastating anyone they don't like who doesn't have nuclear weapons...and this is why North Korea is very keen on getting some.

The bravado of the DPRK is Korean Animist Machismo, equal in both South and North...and respected in both parts of that one Korea. The problem of Korea can only be worked out by the two Korean brothers, not by China, not by neighbour Russia, and certainly not by the very foreign and randomly vicious juvenile USA.