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They don't run the place, and they simply keep it propped up as a proxy defense against the "Western" South Korea.

This is my point, the people starve so they are doing a bad job at propping it up - a rebellion can start and their "Ally and friend" is gone.

Propping up an entire failed county is hard. China does a lot better in NK than the US did in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Why would be hard, they can put them to work in factory to do cheap shit and give them food.

Or alternatively, people aren’t in fact starving and wouldn’t consider rebellion.

It wouldn’t be the first time western media consistently lied about something.