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Wikileaks: China Moving Away From North Korea - China is distancing itself from North Korea and increasingly accepting the "new reality" of a reunited Korean peninsula, a cable released by Wikileaks says. The cable from US ambassador to Seoul Kathleen Stephens describes a widening gap between the governments of China and North Korea. It signals China could not stop the collapse of the ailing dictatorship after the death of its leader Kim Jong-Il. Ms Stephen's cable is dated February 22, 2010 and given the second highest security classification Secret. It quotes South Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo saying China expects a political meltdown in North Korea within three years of Jong-Il's death. There is "no will" to increase Chinese economic investment and influence in the country to force a change in its policies, he is quoted saying. "China had far less influence on North Korea "than most people believe." Beijing had ...