Is China "frustrated" with Pyongyang?

NHK World web-page

In an article on its website and TV channel news at 1900,

Japanese public channel NHK reported on tuesday night about

an alleged debate held within China powerful leadership based

on a column published in People's Daily and re-published into

English in its People's Daily' group Global Times. Needless

to say it will fuel polemical talks in the P.R. of China and

Japan. But it seems in the natural order of things and

concerns.

✍ I as always felt that the world would be a better place the

day when we will be able to travel from Fukuoka to Paris and

London via Beijing and the Korean peninsula by High Speed

train such as the T.G.V. and it would require the most

fabulous infrastructures ever built since the... building of

the Chinese Great Wall and the Roman empire? If it is

confirmed that some, at the top level in China, are ready to

dump North Korea stalinian regime, today was an other

historic day in Asia!

Quotes

"Party paper says China reviews N. Korean policy

A Chinese newspaper says discussion is taking place within

the Chinese leadership to review their North Korean policy. A

senior reporter of the Communist Party newspaper, People's

Daily, wrote that the nuclear test by North Korea in May

prompted the move. An affiliated newspaper, Global Times,

ran the signed editorial on Tuesday. The editorial says the

view that North Korea is a strategic buffer zone for China is

outdated. It also says the two countries' bilateral

friendship treaty, which stipulates a mutual defense

obligation, should be reviewed to fit the situation. It

urges a change from the unbalanced relationship in which

China unilaterally provides economic aid to North Korea. It

is unusual for a party paper to question China's traditional

relationship with North Korea. It apparently shows the

frustration of the Chinese leadership toward North Korea,

which left the six-party talks on its nuclear program and

conducted the nuclear test in May. North Korea still refuses

to return to the talks, of which China is the host." End of

quotes.

2009/09/08 20:51(JST) from NHK

http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/world.html