As Talks Begin, China Views N. Korea as Risk The Washington Post | August 27, 2003| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

In the six-nation talks that began here today on the emerging nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, a key dynamic will be the one between China and North Korea.

China's government once saw North Korea as a strategic buffer and a friendly communist economy. But Beijing increasingly views Pyongyang and its apparent desire to develop a nuclear weapon as a risk, and officials have all but pleaded with the government of Kim Jong Il to begin reforming the country's moribund economy.

Whereas the Chinese once looked at North Korea and saw themselves in the mirror, now businessmen and scholars ...

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