When will China install a pro-market socialist regime in North Korea? It would give their own system legitmacy by making their puppet state prosperous.
>>18628050North Korea isn't a puppet of anyone. It plays off China against Russia to get maximal gibs. Because Russia is stuck fighting the Ukraine war and paying north korea for weapons, Pyongyang has received a windfall and now has quite a lot of economic growth.
>>18628050It would be significantly more trouble than it's worth for China. As long as North Korea stays in their sphere and serves as a buffer state, they're happy enough with it being hell on Earth.
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>>18628050They did, noeth korea gave up on communism and removed it from their constitution in like 2005
>>18628137>north korea copers whine for decades that north korea is only poor because of UN sanctions against them>sanctions are withdrawn>as everyone suspected north korean economy continues to... wait... it's actually growing at an alarming rate? well well well looks like the immortal science of kimilsungism-kimjongilism was right againhttps://youtu.be/PgRn2WpoPIk&t=194
>>18628050The status quo in North Korea is agreeable to China. It functions as an effective buffer between China and South Korea and that is satisfactory for Chinese security policy.
>>18628402If China tried to end North Korea militarily they would get their asses handed to them.The Chinese military is a bunch of unmotivated overqualified college students who couldn't get a job in their field after a decade of going through the gaokao/college complex, so begrudgingly had to fall back on the military as a source of income.The North Koreans have been taught from birth that there would come a day when Koreans would be slaughtered in the streets as their grandparents were and that they were the last line of defense against that happening again.
Make me wish Dixieland get independent
