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Originally Posted by kyp275
It's simple geopolitics. Just like the Soviets had the Warsaw Pact to put some distance between Moscow and their adversaries (US&Allies), China too does not like to have a major pro-US nation right on its border. The same for the US really, ala the Cuban crisis.
China would much rather the US having to go through N.Korea first before getting inside China proper in an invasion, rather than getting directly inside China from the start.
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Turkey, a long-time ally of the US and a member of NATO, was sitting right on the border with the Soviet Union. The Soviets didn't feel too bothered about it in the long run after the time those outdated Jupiter missiles were dismantled as a part of that secret deal to solve the Cuban missile crisis.
If the North Korean regime falls, I'm not sure the reunification process would be immediately going underway considering how the gap between North and South Korea is way too wide. North Korea will need to show that they have something valuable of their own as well as the will to work hard in order to improve their current situation before South Korea would consider reunification with a more serious eye. In other words, North Korean people will need to prove that they won't act like parasites only feeding off South Korean help if the reunification process begins.