[현안분석] Breakdown in China-North Korea Relations: Caused Not by the Third Nuclear Test but by Failed Economic Cooperation

...embrace of successive UN resolutions against the North, not to mention China adopting its own sanctions measures. However, this article argues that the rift already had begun when the negotiations on Rason, Hwanggumphyong, and Wihwa Islands broke down in August 2012. The reasons for the breakdown are still speculative at best, though presumably China’s depletion of patience against North Korea’s...