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Given that their regime survives at all, that's solid ground. And it's less foreign aid than their holding the entire population of Seoul hostage and using it to take money from the rich countries to develop nukes. The Chinese only support them for fear of an even bigger refugee crisis.

In any case there has to be an explanation for why the Chinese are tolerating a possible and real military threat on their border, which in this scenario would resume North Korea's traditional policies of allying with Russia.