My two cents. NOKO will become part of China just not in name. China will offer it Military protection including Nukes in the unlikely event that would ever be needed. In return Rocket Man will run his dictatorship, open up his country for economic development with heavy Chinese and Western aid. A formal ending of the War may happen at some point. I’m not to sure if there will be a full open boarder reunification as Kim will lose to much control and his people will get too big of a wiff of what true freedom is.
Why so pessimistic? You don’t believe Korean unification will be the direction instead?