Two reasons to be nice with the bad guy?

According to the mysterious MDC -from Foreign Policy Watch- here are two reasons the United States can't rely on a policy of regime change in North Korea (for now):

1) The United States simply can't do it: only China would have enough leverage to push the Korean regime into complete state failure.

2) Were Washington to find a way of doing so, it would likely loose support from North Korea's neighbours (in particular its Southern "other") who would be "tasked with picking up the pieces" (MDC).

Read more of MDC's enlightening analysis here.

Photo credits: Map of North Korea, from Theodora.com.