China frustration with NKorea offers hope for US

WASHINGTON (AP) ? China's growing frustration with ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding discussions between Washington and Beijing about what to do if the government in Pyongyang collapses.

There is no sign that the North Korean regime is in danger or that President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jingping (shee jihn-peeng) will discuss that possibility when they meet this week in California. Any such talk would alarm North Korea if word got out.

But in China, talk about a crisis or North Korean collapse is no longer the taboo subject it once was. Academics are willing to discuss it and a former top U.S. general said he has detected, during informal meetings, a willingness of Chinese officials to consider such discussions.

Associated Press

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