The North Korean regime is decomposing due to economic distress and popular discontent. Kim is likely to be ousted soon if he does not reform.
When your elite soldiers, the face you show the world, are starving and infested with parasites you've got a pretty serious problem.
“Kim is likely to be ousted soon if he does not reform.”
Could this reform be done the way we administered Japan after WWII? “Occupied Japan” successfully changed a lot of the old ways that no longer worked for the Japanese.
China eventually wants North Korea to be like itself or Vietnam. I wouldn’t be surprised if the current Kim “lets in” the People’s Liberation Army and North Korea turns into a facsimile of the China in 2018.