> “If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China wi

> “If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so.” Maybe I am reading too much into it, but if this is their real words, it sounds like an invitation (probably lost on the Trump administration) to find ways to overthrow the NK regime without changing the pattern of the Korean peninsula, i.e. by keeping NK in the Chinese sphere of influence.