AFP
Sept 6, 2011
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il expressed distrust of his country’s major economic prop China during a 2009 meeting with a visiting South Korean businesswoman, according to a US diplomatic cable.
The cable released by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks summarises a meeting between the US ambassador in Seoul and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-Eun, who had recently returned from a meeting in Pyongyang with the leader.
The cable dated August 28, 2009 quoted Hyun as saying Kim had made a comment about “not trusting” China, without elaborating.
Kim also complained that Seoul’s unification ministry tasked with handling cross-border relations had “lost the driver’s seat” to the foreign ministry, which he asserted did not understand North Korea.
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