He shells, she shells
The shooting has stopped, but China is fed up with its ally, North Korea
KERFUFFLES between the Koreas tend to involve few surprises. The latest military spat between the democratic South and the despotic North ended on August 25th after 43 hours of talks concluded with an agreement to have more. The truce bound North Korea to hardly anything. The only commitment was for a resumption of cross-border reunions of families separated by the Korean war of 1950-53, in late September. (The last planned reunions, last year, went ahead, though the North scuppered others two years ago.) So far, so predictable. But, intriguingly, this time North Korea did not appear to demand new concessions, a staple of its old formula of threats in exchange for handouts.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “He shells, she shells”
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