text: moon howler,
  
    One might think it's in China's interest to have North Korea as a perpetual threat to the West.
    On the other hand, given the West's propensity to engage in various longer and longer wars, scaring its populations into submission with nuclear threats, terrorist threats, and increasingly long  lucrative wars throughout the world, whose interests are being served by not signing a peace treaty to end the war these last 64 years?