Daniel Pinkston, lecturer in international relations with Troy University with his thoughts on the announcement of Kim Jong-un's trip to Beijing.

Democracy and Class Struggle does not have much time for "North Korea experts" in the West but we think the comments of Daniel Pinkston quite measured and thoughtful.

For those of us with memories we can remember the hysterical reaction in 1964 to China's nuclear programme and Taiwan wanting to pre emptively nuke China.

While we still have hysteria around North Korea's nuclear programme we see signs of measured and rational diplomacy from South Korea and China and Russia.

The USA is still the danger.