This WAS the Soviet's client state..............NOT China's. They utilized the genocidal, bigotted, hegemonistic North Korean attack dogs during the cold war.
Now they say, "Kim who?".
The Russkiis oughta stay off the wodka.
But it was mostly Chinese we wound up fighting, when their army stormed across the Yalu River as we were on the verge of polishing off the North Korean regime.