China: As Clueless as Everyone Else About North Korea? By Bill Powell / Seoul Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 a North Korean Soldier (R) looks at South Korean soldier at the border village of Panmunjom between North and South Korea in Panmunjom, South Korea Lee Tae-Kyung / Getty Images Against the backdrop of tension on the Korean peninsula soaring to its highest level in decades, the world's new presume..