Keeping Kim Jong Un dead-undead delays firing the starting gun on a deadly power struggle. The flag will drop when they are ready to go for it.
The prospect of a Nokor collapse and possible refugee streams with the pandemic going must be worrisome.
Kim is a metaphor for his wretched country. It too is undead, trapped in a state of suspended animosity since the ceasefire.
'Like an enormous bat whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And Beijing took it, and nursed it with fell meats.'
That's a rework of Tolkien
