It is important to know that world leaders get along. Especially in a region as volatile as East Asia. And especially when North Korea is invovled. So it is good to see China working hard to maintain a close relationship with the North Koreans, trying to keep their nuclear ambitions in check.

But there's close, and then there's too close.

North Korean despot Kim Jong-Il moves to snog ex-Chinese President Jiang Zemin, consumating a decades long love affair.