China Publicly Backs Kim Jong Eun (Perhaps)

Here (in English) is an interesting thing to ponder (below translation me, from Korean original);

Xinhua, unlike Chosun Central News Agency (KCNA), did not refer to Chinese State Councilor Meng Jianzhu saying that China "ardently congratulates Comrade Kim Jong Il on becoming General Secretary and Comrade Kim Jong Eun on becoming Chosun Workers' Party Central Military Commission Vice Chairman at the Chosun Workers' Party Delegates' Conference, therefore gloriously solving the problem of succession to the Chosun revolution."

Both reports emerged today. So did Meng congratulate the North on Kim Jong Eun's succession but the Chinese media is reluctant to report it? Or is KCNA just making it up (unlikely but not impossible)? Meng's words also went unreported here, to name but one other Chinese media source. Perhaps Adam Cathcart, a man of far greater Chinese knowledge than I, will come through with something domestically Chinese, or maybe, as I suspect is more likely, most people in the Chinese leadership, without regard to whether they support North Korea or simply wish it would go away, think it prudent not to make too much of this kind of thing.