Pyongyang is undeniably a liability for Beijing. Its policies raise the risk of war in Asia; they deepen the regional U.S. military presence and bind the U.S. closer to South Korea and Japan; and many Chinese are embarrassed to support such a backward regime. But China's leaders take ideology seriously, as they do “stability” and other oft-cited motivations for backing Pyongyang. Communist solidarity, with its old affinities and paranoias, dies hard.
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