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Rat - the Chinese keep the North Koreans propped up. They have for decades.
I've said this here before and MSD has already posted something to the same effect: invading North Korea is a sucide mission. Americans have never had the taste for sending troops into a meat grinder without major provocation. Nuclear tests aren't anywhere close to reaching that status. So long as the North Koreans stay (mostly) on their side of the border, the US will not invade. To do so would mean the complete destruction of the Korean penninsula as well as the northern part of the Japanese archipelago given fallout patterns. There are no options beyond nuclear and haven't been since at least the 1980's. The DMZ is the most heavily fortified border in the world and any sort of invasion worthy of the title would quickly resemble France in 1915.
The North Koreans are actually friendly with a lot of folks, most of who aren't that friendly with us. The Pakistanis. The Venezualans. The Iranians. Just for starters....
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