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The proximity of such desolation goes to the heart of China's quandary about how to deal with North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Il. Dandong is the main crossing point on China's 880-mile border with North Korea, making it the most active hub for the $1.6...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Beijing is so Reluctant to Cut off Trade with North Korea | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

It's a surprisingly balmy evening for mid-October in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong, a soft breeze blowing tendrils of mist across the slate grey surface of the Yalu River. Sprawling for miles along the banks of the river, Dandong seems a perfect, bustling symbol of the "new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanctions Don't Bite on the North Korea Border | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

The roughly $1.6 billion annual trade between the two countries is critical to the survival of the regime in Pyongyang - about half of North Korea's daily oil supply and a slightly lower proportion of its food imports come from China. And the lion's share of that trade has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanctions Don't Bite on the North Korea Border | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

China doesn't like being told what to do in its own backyard by the United States. But neither its leaders in Beijing nor the ordinary working people of Dandong hide their frustration with the North Koreans. Squatting by the side of the road and smoking a cigarette, a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanctions Don't Bite on the North Korea Border | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

Beijing certainly supported the Security Council resolution and the principle of punishing North Korea for crossing a red line by testing a nuclear weapon. And on Thursday it sent former Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan - who met last week with President Bush - to warn North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rice's North Korea Sanctions Mission Is No Slam-Dunk | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

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