It's not as simple as it seems

An interesting point of view. Once again, the Chinese thinkers have shown that they're masters of long-term strategy. But it's the conclusions in this essay that are the central point: it is against China's interests to have a nuclear North Korea. And respectively, surprisingly or not - it is in the interests of US. Because "If China continues its ambiguous policies on the North Korean nuclear issue, the US will encourage Japan to become nuclearised". Japan would become "a central force in a new East Asian military alliance" including Australia, South Korea, Taiwan and southeast Asian countries.

Interesting enough, "a North Korea with nuclear weapons is not in China's interests or the common interests of humankind" - but it's obviously in the interests of US, contrary to what US claims. A nuclear NK means the US will have an excuse to continue expanding the geopolitical "sanitary belt" around the Eurasian core, as postulated by Brzezinski in The Grand Chessboard.

The big chess game continues. Whoever thought the Cold War was over, should think twice. It has never stopped. And of course, nothing is as simple as it looks on the surface.

The article:
Bitterness in Beijing over North Korea's betrayal may mean war