North Korea cannot stand on its on. It relies on China. It is a vassal state of China just as, if not more, than South Korea and the United States. This is neither unusual or necessarily inappropriate, but it is a fact. They share a common border and China can bring to bear unstoppable force.
A short history lesson- In the 1950's the United States drove North Korea to the border with China in the Korean war phase 1. The event which led to the current uneasy peace had nothing to do with a North Korean miracle and everything to do with the Chinese coming to the aid of NKG and going toe to toe, rather successfully, with a US army caught flat footed by what would have been obvious to anyone taking a long term approach to the conflict (The US at the time was only looking at the two armies as static entities and China's entry into the war was not judged feasible despite the relative logistic simplicity. It was also a case of grossly underestimating a force that stopped the Japanese in their tracks and gave the allies the ability to concentrate first on defeating the Nazis in WWII.
Anyone who says the border prevents China from influencing NK is ignoring the influx of military might in the transition of the NK war from victory, to bloody stalemate, to uneasy peace.
I would venture that if NK declares (directly or indirectly) war on the USA or its surrogate South Korea (the US equivalent of China's North Korea) it will be another example of China playing the US Congress for the patsies they have been during the Bush wars in the middle east.
This war would be nothing more than China taking one more step towards bringing down the US economy through attrition and debt (for more on this see China's Weaponized Economy, First edition available through Amazon).
Those of you who see the news articles about China standing with the west in the United Nations and take it seriously, forget that China has a much longer view of things and is capable of just as much duplicity as the United States (led by the most unorganized and possibly the most two faced congress in history).
The solutions of a long term view are set out in the treatise referenced above http://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Weaponized-Economy-The-philosophy-World/dp/1481037099/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364611439&sr=8-1&keywords=china%27s+weaponized+economy
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