>>508719425 (OP)The Chinese helped them do it. They had been worried for a long time about the Korean peninsula, and the regime would have fallen if it became a kinetic, conventional war with the South. The North Korean military is underequipped and does not have the logistics capability in peace to get food to soldiers. Conventional wars are won with bread, bullets, and bombs. North Korea can't supply those with zero interference. Without a nuke, they are a key candidate for a proxy war. If they lose North China has a diehard US ally on its borders that fucking hates them.