Henrietta Levin

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Pekingology · Can China Control North Korea? · 28 May 2026 podcast

I guess that's a charitable interpretation that I'm sure also intersects with just not wanting to deal with a difficult issue because to some degree all bureaucracies are alike. matched

But regardless of how kind of that calculus played out, where Beijing appears to have landed and how to deal with this problem is charm offensive. matched

And we've seen a real uptick in diplomatic engagement between Beijing and Pyongyang over the past few months, I mean even longer now. matched

So could you walk us through the charm offensive, the heightened pace of diplomacy between the two sides, what that really means, if anything. matched

It is interesting. matched

I mean, if she really goes at a time when he's doing very little international travel and he's been skipping like you know G twenty, uh bricks, like the the stuff that he normally does, admittedly it's an easier trip to North Korea. matched

So maybe maybe there's like some logistical flight, matched

Yeah, I don't know if you feel this way, but I feel like coming out of my time at the White House, I always wanna when I'm trying to like come up with a big conspiracy for why a head of state like does or doesn't go to a big summit, I'm much more inclined now to be like, Maybe they were busy matched

Maybe they had other stuff. matched

But now he's gonna go. matched

Potentially even after this kind of like spree of foreign leaders coming to Beijing. matched

It's maybe particularly striking that the one time she will actually go out and see a partner on their terms might be North Korea, which doesn't seem like the kind of I don't know, optic that she or that China would normally try and put forward. matched

So let's briefly take the North Korean side of this. matched

If she does go, what is Kim Jong-un looking to get out of those meetings and all of the symbolism associated with them? matched

So we're almost out of time. matched

I want to bring it back to the US sitting here in Washington. matched

I think there's a perpetual hope, dream, aspiration that the US can kind of partner with China on this issue. matched

We see, of course, those hopes being brought to the fore in the public messaging coming out of the summit, as we've discussed. matched

So, what do you think is actually realistic? matched

in terms of what the US and China can do together on the Korean peninsula, like if you were matched

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