PRC, DPRK, ROK, USA

"What does China stand to gain from a nuclear North Korea and the survival of the Kim Jong-il regime?" is the question answered by Cynthia Lee — Conflicts in China's North Korea policy.

She suggests that "a unified Korea, resulting from the dissolution of the Kim Jong-il regime, would... implicitly recognize US supremacy in the region." She also says that "[a]s South Korea's most powerful and generous benefactor, the US has the resources to help unite two nations whose levels of urban and economic modernization are jarringly different and bound to pose difficulties in the case of reunification."

Does our bankrupt country have such resources? And if she did, would it be in her interest to use them to help unite the two Koreas? How has being "South Korea's most powerful and generous benefactor" for the past six decades helped anybody back home? How does "US supremacy in the region" help anybody back home?