Originally Posted by
West Coast
Just what would you have expected the Chinese to do to stop NK?
Invade is about the only real answer. Sanctions wouldn’t have stopped them with the effect of having have NK quickly pivot to the west.
An NK pivot to the west while simultaneously running a nuclear program is a non starter even now, so probably not a concern to China.
China is, in the words of the first Kim, 'as close as lips to teeth' to NK, they provide them with food, weapons and industrial support. So China is and was critical to the NK nuclear effort.
If China tried to stop it, they clearly did not try very hard.
Still seems a very shortsighted policy imho.