BILL GERTZ: China Set for North Korea Invasion.

According to the report, China fears North Korea’s provocative nuclear and missile tests will set off a regional conflict. Beijing wants stability, a denuclearized peninsula and no U.S. forces near its borders.

“China’s priority is maintaining stability on the Korean peninsula, which includes preventing a [North Korean] collapse and preventing a military conflict on the peninsula,” the report said.

China’s government has issued strident statements regarding North Korea, including suggestions the PLA will be used to respond to a Korean crisis.

The response could include options ranging from “securing the China-North Korea border to prevent the flow of refugees, to a military intervention into North Korea.”

I’ve been arguing for years at VodkaPundit that the best politically viable solution to North Korea — if still highly unlikely — would be for Chinese paratroopers to show up in Pyongyang and decapitate the Kim Regime.

Maybe now it’s slightly more likely.