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China-Japan-Koreas
N.Koreans Despise Chinese, Says Ex-Envoy
2012-06-30
I'm guessing the feeling is mutual...
North Koreans despise the Chinese even though China is the Stalinist country's sole ally, a former British ambassador to North Korea says. John Everard was promoting a book about his experience in North Korea titled "Only Beautiful, Please" at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Monday.

He said it North Korean hate the Chinese although or because they rely on massive economic assistance from China. Economic cooperation between the two countries keeps growing, but the belief that Chinese are arrogant as well as a deep-rooted North Korean sense of racial purity seems to be at play, he said.

He recalled that while numerous signs and billboards in North Korea display hostile slogans aimed at U.S. imperialism, ordinary North Koreans did not feel much animosity toward America. Not many North Koreans believed the U.S. would attack their country and very few of them thought that South Korea would attack since they consider South Korea a puppet state of the U.S., Everard added.

Everard said the opening of the British Embassy in Pyongyang in July 2001 met with significant opposition in the U.K. because of the cost and doubts over the influence London would actually be able to wield. But he claimed diplomatic missions run by the U.K. as well as Germany and Sweden in Pyongyang were able to take a huge amount of influence in the North.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Jim, given that the Chinese have inflicted North Korea's current leadership on its people, I suspect it's a safe bet that its people don't like them either.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2012-06-30 15:27  

#3  Corrected Headline, "North Korean LEADERS despise China".
How dare they be successfull, the nerve?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-06-30 06:47  

#2  WAFF, TOPIX > TAIWAN LETS KOREANS IN FREE, BUT NOT [Chinese] MAINLANDERS.

Once cleared in Taiwan, the Koreans can come to Guam-CNMI or other US Ports-of-Entry.

FYI my home island of GUAM is trying to get US visa waiver program approved for mainland Chinese tourists.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-06-30 01:16  

#1  Massive econ assistance which is barely enough for ordinary Norkies, + by most accounts is not getting any better, + scores of 000's of PLA Security forces in NOKOR [150-300,000?] to protect the Kims + Regime.

Speaking of massive econ assistance by China,

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > THE [normal = regular]SCOPE OF CHINESE AID TO NORTH KOREA IS DISCERNED/DETERMINED BY CHINA.

90-100,000 TONS OF FOOD, 500,000 TONS OF FUEL OIL, approxi 20.0Milyuhn in Goods per Annum.

* SAME > GREAT WALL ESTIMATE ANGERS SOUTH KOREANS.

ARTIC > SOKORS = China should NOT be claiming as part of its historial "Great Wall" fortifications + other complexes which were contructed by the Govts-People of the ancient Korean States of GOGURYEO + BOHAI; nor to also claim those located in current NOKOR territory.

* WORLD NEWS > NORTH KOREA TESTS THE PATIENCE OF CHINA | .... ITS CLOSEST ALLY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-06-30 00:58  

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