북한의 3차 핵 실험 이후 중ㆍ북관계 변화의 의미

An Analysis of Sino-North Korean Relations in the Wake of the North's Third Nuclear Test

Since North Korea's third nuclear test. China has gradually changed its attitude toward the North. A number of Korea's China specialists tend to evaluate China's new actions to Pyongyang as forebodes of changes in its strategies and policies toward the North. Although it is true that China is changing its attitude and behavior to North Korea. there has been no substantial sign to indicate China's attitudinal changes reaching to its policy changes. The major objective of China's current behavioral change is nothing but to make the North shift its current strategies and to adopt China-recommended suggestions, including no nuclear Korean peninsula, no military provocations, and dialogue with concerning states. Given China having no intention to shift fundamentally its Sino-North Korean relations, we should abstain ourselves from too much overestimating China's current behavior to our favor.