China doesn't want a meltdown in North Korea, and a flood of starving refugees coming across the border. China also does not want South Korea to take over North Korea, putting a major democracy on ...

During that visit, they agreed to construct a bridge for automobiles over the Tumen River, which runs along North Korea’s borders with Russia and China. Later last year, North Korea also began ...

China has traditionally viewed North Korea as a security buffer and an ideologically aligned neighbor it can dominate.

The last spy case like this was in June 2016 when Chinese authorities arrested a North Korean citizen in the border city of Dandong. It reportedly followed Pyongyang informing China that it would ...