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...question everyone from President Barack Obama down is now asking - What does China want from Kim Jong Il? - isn't necessarily the right one. China's leaders have said that a nuclear North Korea is contrary to their "core interests." The more important question is: How much leverage does Beijing actually have over the North, and how much political will do the Chinese have to defend those core interests...
...teeth." Over the years, says Bruce Klingner, a senior analyst at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former deputy chief for the Koreas in the CIA's analysis section, "the talk in both capitals about the other has often been pretty scathing." Even during the Cold War, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, would routinely play the Soviet Union and China off each other. But while China and North Korea have never been as close as the propaganda would have it, the two countries do have shared interests. It's how much weight to give those interests, relative...
...never thought that Kim Jong Il was human and thus mortal.' OH YEON-JONG, a North Korean defector, after American and South Korean officials confirmed that the ailing dictator had chosen his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to succeed...
...that drives Pyongyang to kidnapping; Kim has also resorted to abduction to satisfy his personal whims. The North Korean dictator has long had a passion for movies, but he evidently believed North Korea's cinema wasn't up to his standards. In the late '70s, when his father Kim Il Sung was running the country, Kim apparently ordered the abduction of Shin Sang-ok, then perhaps the most famous film producer in the South, and his wife, Choi Eun-hee, a famous actress. Shin was imprisoned for four years, then forced to make a socialist-friendly version of Godzilla...
...North Korea, in the minds of many Americans, is often seen as a kind of crazy aunt in the attic - an entity no one pays attention to until she pops out and does something vaguely nutty. Sometimes Kim Jong Il is even portrayed as a figure of comic relief, as in South Park's Team America: World Police. Indeed, Google North Korea, and up pops up a site titled "6 Reasons North Korea Is the Funniest Evil Dictatorship Ever...