Sixty years after the end of major hostilities between US led forces and North Korean and Chinese forces in the Korean War, China has released a death toll for the soldiers it sent into combat.
The provinces of Jilin and Liaoning in North Eastern China have been much in the news recently due to devastating floods which have caused material damage and loss of life.
But in this area it’s another type of flood that has Chinese government officials more worried in the long term. And that’s the possible deluge of North Korean refugees from across the border should the government there ever collapse.
In an historic move last week, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan made an apology to the Korean people, for his nation’s crimes against them, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula.
But on the Asian mainland, many Chinese see the apology as a strategic move to undermine China.
Andrew Livingstone on the apology that was, and the apology that was not.