China invading NK and occupying it as a means of defusing the situation is a bit of a nonstarter. First, China has no real desire to expend resources to invade, occupy, and maintain what is, for them, an unprofitable impoverished acquisition; unless they are willing to endure the possibility a protracted period of time with little to no gain and, perhaps, a sort of insurgent situation presented by die-hard NK guerillas, there is little attraction for China. Secondly, if China were to invade NK, even on the aim of trying to defuse Kim and his henchmen, SK is not likely to be calm about fears that maybe China won;t stop at the DMZ and try to get SK in the bargain; it would not be farfetched to consider some rogue SK military elements, believing they were acting in defense of SK, initiating actions that China would, itself, take as unwarranted aggression and respond in kind...
There many variables in the whole Asian situation that need to be considered; there are no simple answers, in particular answers pleasing to all parties...
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