Asia expert Gordon G. Chang: “When the Chinese pull the strings, North Korea knows it has to comply”
North Korea’s nuclear threat and the international crisis it has provoked have temporarily receded into the background, largely thanks to the permanent cloud of scandal enshrouding President Trump’s administration. But the North Korean enigma is likely to remain the most significant foreign policy challenge of Donald Trump’s presidency, and no doubt of the next president’s too. Foreign policy expert and Daily Beast columnist Gordon G. Chang published a book called “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World” — more than 10 years ago. He recently stopped by Salon’s New York studio to talk with me and Carrie Sheffield about the multiple layers of ambiguity in the three-way relationship between China, North Korea and the United States.
