Dai Bingguo, a senior foreign policymaker for China, met with Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang on Thursday. Both Chinese and North Korean media has had little to report on the meeting, only to state that the discussions were to boost friendly relations between the allies, and address mutual concerns over tensions on the Korean peninsula.
China is playing its old hand of supporting the North by not openly denouncing their military actions against the South. Perhaps the lack of condemnation, and recent meetings between the countries is to diffuse the excitement over the recently released Wikileaks cable, suggesting that China has little clout with North Korea, and would accept a Seoul-led unified Korea.
