TIME Asia Magazine: China / North Korea - Family Feud

China's patience for North Korea's diplomatic brinkmanship has worn thin Beijing has usually backed the North on the diplomatic front, too. But today there are signs that China is fed up with the dangerous antics of its communist little brother.

During a summit this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin put North Korea high on their agenda, and afterwards issued a joint statement urging Pyongyang to drop its nuclear weapons program. Last week, Beijing signaled that Kim, who has visited China twice in the last three years, is for the moment persona non grata on the mainland.

Time also had a cover story on the nuclear power with starving people. This is the most dangerous threat to the United States, not Iraq.