North Korea hopes that China remains her guaranteed sponsor – Andrey Nikolaevich Lankov

North Korea relied on the maximum quarantine and does not hurry to cancel it. Professor declared on January 18 universities to the correspondent of REGNUM news agencies it "Kongming" (South Korea) Andrey Nikolaevich Lankov. "North Korea relied on the maximum quarantine. This rate is possible just because North Korea is quite reasonably sure that China will pay for this pleasure — Andrey Nikolaevich Lankov told. — In other words, will provide minimum necessary humanitarian help which will provide a population survival, will prevent collapse of infrastructure and generally will allow to function to the state...