China and the North Korea Bomb

If we were to believe the story in the Wall Street Journal today, we have to belive that the Chinese and US governments have suddenly noticed that a Chinese conglomerate is helping North Korea build a better bomb and that neither government emcouraged them to do it.  That isn't the way Chinese business works.  The government has a role in every Chinese business and knows what it is doing.  The intelligence services are aware of what North Korea is doing and how that is being facilitated through Chinese industry.  It would not be a surprise to anyone.

There is complicity on both sides to allow the view in this article to be disseminated as an official view.  We want to pretend that the Chinese government is not aware of what this conglomerate was up to, and that it officially does not support the development of nuclear weapons by the North.  The North would not have missiles or weapons without the guidance and support of China.  To accept any less is to live in a dreamland of political correctness.