My name is Daniel. I was an English teacher in Seoul, South Korea, and am now a writer who has

published three books including South Korea: Our Story by Daniel Nardini.

                     I have been reading in a number of Korean newspapers about how current South 

Korean President Moon Jae-in had "masterfully" negotiated with the Chinese and the Russians about

trying to bring North Korea to the negotiation table for "talks" and a possible peace treaty. But I have

to ask myself who is the real puppet and who is the real puppet master? Did Moon play the brilliant

statesman of getting China and Russia on board to stop North Korea? Or, did the Chinese govern-

ment play South Korea for a sucker? Recently, the U.S. government has slapped sanctions on the

Bank of Dandong in China and a Chinese company called Dalian Global Unity for both products and

money transfers to North Korea and North Korean banks in China. Now how could these Chinese

institutions have done any "business" with North Korea without the Chinese government's know-

ledge? It does not seem possible given the Chinese government's propensity of trying to know

anything and everything through its vast spy/security apparatus and military intelligence network.

Some of that material transfer to North Korea included parts and information on missile technology 

as well as funding for North Korea's weapons program. It seems that China, and yes even Russia, are

playing a double game---on the one hand coordinate a "united front" against North Korea and try

to bring peace to the Korean peninsula, but on the other hand supply North Korea with the material

and money they need to get around the sanctions having been put on that country by the United 

Nations, Japan and the United States. We have to remember that China exports to North Korea

accounts for 50 percent of North Korea's imports, and that Russia is trying to more business with

North Korea because of the European Union's sanctions against Russia. So I ask again who is

the real puppet and the puppet master?