Comment Re:what China should do is (Score 4, Insightful) 288
invade North Korea, depose the North Korean government, and depose & disarm the North Korean military, and once they stabilized it, hand it over to South Korea
...Except China likes having North Korea as a buffer zone between it and the much more democratic and western-aligned South Korea.
Having a crackpot dictatorship on its borders helps China's own citizens from getting to many 'crazy' ideas in their head -- "Look how great we have it here!"