In 1950, Kim Il Sung could fight a war as long as Stalin and Mao had his back, and in the end, they kept the war going for their own purposes. Today, I think Xi and Putin are watching Kim at least as closely as the US, ROK and Japan. If necessary, they'll throw him under the bus.
Emperor Xi and Tsar Putin employ Kim III as a maverick nutjob who can be used to destabilize not just the peninsula but also the Black Sea region.
Kim’s kingdom is a buffer state between the “westernized” ROK and the PRC and Russia.
If Kim III didn’t exist Emperor Xi and Tsar Putin would have invented someone just like him … just as Stalin and Mao invented Kim I.
Emperor Xi definitively does not want the DPRK to collapse internally like a worm infested KPA grunt’s imploding intestines spilling out across the Yalu and the Tumen into North East China.
Emperor Xi and Tsar Putin employ Kim III as a maverick nutjob who can be used to destabilize not just the peninsula but also the Black Sea region.
Kim’s kingdom is a buffer state between the “westernized” ROK and the PRC and Russia.
If Kim III didn’t exist Emperor Xi and Tsar Putin would have invented someone just like him … just as Stalin and Mao invented Kim I.
Emperor Xi definitively does not want the DPRK to collapse internally like a worm infested KPA grunt’s imploding intestines spilling out across the Yalu and the Tumen into North East China.