WangFan, Koreas expert and director of the Institute of International Studies at China Foreign Affairs University, disagrees however and tells China Daily that the US-South Korean military drills will only provoke Pyongyang further.
Both Wang and Fan are among the five interviewed by CNN who said they attempted to make their case last March, but were intercepted by police who took them into custody and held them in the Holiday Inn Express Nanhuizui.
As Communist Party officials meet this week to decide China's new leadership, outside will be people like Wang Yifeng and Fan Jianjiang who are petitioning government leaders directly for compensation after the demolition of their homes.