It's not just the Chinese. The Marmot has an interesting article reprinted in full from the dead-tree Wall Street Journal. (Typed in by a reader!) The South has been laboring to keep the North afloat for fear of the extreme costs of integrating the North should it collapse. Their interests are different than ours on this. They will labor for years appeasing, paying off, propping up and keeping their fingers in the dyke for however long it takes to prevent potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in reunification costs at bay, while we're concerned that in the mean-time, the North will export technology, weapons - even nuclear - or just decide they've had enough of waiting and try to take it all. We can't wait forever. Oh, and neither can hundreds of thousands of starving, gulag and execution threatened North Koreans.

Read the article here: The Marmot: S. Korea working to keep KJI afloat: WSJ — MUST READ!!!