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[kandrathe]

They're not bluffing.

North Korea is the red headed orphan child that no one wants to adopt. China doesn't want the mess, they believe reunification of north and south will solve the problem. The US doesn't want reunification, they want China to rein in their dog, er I mean ugly orphan. Or, as Bernd Schaefer says, "China’s leverage over North Korea is not only constrained by its focus on economic development. Beijing is also fearful of an influx of North Korean refugees in the event of regime collapse, and the effects of this on internal development."

So, yes, North Korea is this very economically unstable and desperate military focused dictatorship whose only industry is making weapons. They have exploded nukes, and launched a failed ICBM so far in the past couple of years. But at any moment this pus filled blister might pop and pollute the entire region with refugees, chaos, and military surplus flooding the black market. Or, you have the dictatorship maintaining at least order, and brokering deals with the terrorists and other rogue nations.

It is a no win scenario, unless the blister heals. Which in my book means DPK needs to reforms it economy (as China has done), and join the ranks of above board and legal nations. When you have dictators for life, it means you get to wait 50 years between opportunities for reform.