Just as I’ve mentioned...Ultimately Russia and China want the US out of S. Korea period......they are not about to put up with loosing their buffer nation and have US troops on their borders...And the US isn’t about to move out of S. Korea....so currently nothings changed.
The US can just “move out of S. Korea” as soon as the DPRK is no more. Win, win all around. All of those US forces get replaced with just a token force. THAAD leaves. US projection of influence in the east switches back to naval power (which the expenditure that had been tied up in the ROK gets redirected into augmenting).
Getting a “stable” guy in charge of North Korea is to everyone’s advantage at this point.
We’re not asking to have a U.S. stooge in control.
We just want someone who isn’t fixated on nuclear strikes on the U.S. and it’s allies.
China has a lot riding on this. It’s trade with the U.S. is vital to it.