Beijing can’t seem to decide where the real threat on the Korean Peninsula resides, as it leverages all the elements of the party-state to punish South Korea, not North Korea.
SHANGHAI—In the months leading up to North Korea’s acceleration of missile testing, authorities in Beijing whipped up public outrage.
The main object of this indignation isn’t Pyongyang but Seoul, which has angered Beijing by deploying a U. S. missile defense system to protect itself from the North’s ire.
Beijing fears the powerful radar of the system known as Thaad, or Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, will snoop on its own…
