For the U.S. acceptance of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal may be the least bad choice because it's not a threat to us but by coddling the Kid playing with nuclear matchsticks China has allowed their existential threat to develop. Geography tells the story. Beijing at only a 500 mile distance from Pyongyang makes it so that if the PRC ever entertained the thought of decapitating the North Korean regime the time has past where it could be done without a nuclear nuclear conflagration in the hood.