The United Nations' recently implemented sanctions against North Korea are already driving a wedge between longtime allies North Korea and China, a document from the Workers' Party of North Korea reveals. In the document, the Workers' Party condemns Beijing for partaking in the sanctions aimed at curbing North Korea's nuclear program and urges its people to confront China with a "nuclear storm" for its alleged "betrayal of socialism," Daily NK reports.A nuclear storm? Good luck with that. Let me know when your bomb is going to go off because shortly after that I'm going to want to go for a dip in some SPF 10,000 and put my sunglasses on to watch China's rebuttal.
"We must no longer go easy on the Chinese and instead deal with them equally in order to change their attitude of taking us lightly," the document reportedly reads, declaring China an "enemy state." Up until this point, the two nations had kept close ties since signing the Sino-North Korean Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance in 1961.
If this goes much further I could get ahead of the market and start up a company manufacturing Earth globes with a large black indentation where Pyongyang used to be.
With North Korea's dismay at China's "eager" participation -- which it says is a ploy to protect its "status of dominance in Northeast Asia" -- the key relationship could meet its demise, Sino-North Korea relations expert Lee Young Hwa, a professor at Kansai University, told Daily NK. "There is a high possibility that Sino-North Korea relations will not only deteriorate," he said, "but lead to tensions as well."
Looks like it's official now.