North koreans pick up on this middle finger mentality. They feel that chinas trying to koreart its hegemony over. Of course, it leads to meddling. So it doesnt surprise me when relations sour. Theim shocked more by people same by the fact that people seem perplexed by the souring of relations between china. Orea and as recently as the mid2000, chinas aid to north korea was was up and down. It hasnt been consistent. There have been periods of andnse, you know, mistrust souring of relations. This is something to again, Something Else to keep in the back of your mind as you are reading reports in the newspaper about the relationship with china and north korea. Decades,e past seven their relationship has i would say, you know, at one point i went through and tallied up. Out of the past 70 years, this is when relations were pretty okd versus, you know, just versus really bad. And it was, in fact i would say that the majority of the years unfortunately, i dont remember them off the top of my
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