Just a hair more than Australia, only much poorer. If (when) the Kim regime collapses, there will be a mass exodus from the former state. South Korea is neither willing nor able to support even a fraction of the incoming refugees; in 2017, over 72% of South Koreans in their 20s believed reunification is unnecessary, and a majority are not willing to see their living conditions decline in order to accommodate it (re: Wiki article on Korean_reunification). China is the obvious, and only realistic alternative.
Needless to say, China does not need an extra 20+ million penniless mouths to feed at the moment. They also don't need a nuclear madman at their doorstep who thinks negatively of the Chinese.
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