China is ready to distance itself from North Korea and accept reunification with the South, according to more leaked diplomatic documents.

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Amid the cables obtained by WikiLeaks are details about Beijing's frustration with its Communist neighbour.
The Guardian, which is one of the newspapers given direct access to the leaked information, reports senior Chinese officials regard Pyongyang as a "spoiled child".
One senior Chinese diplomat is said to have told an American ambassador that younger generation Communist party leaders no longer regarded North Korea as a useful or reliable ally.
Furthermore, Beijing anticipates the regime will collapse after the death of current leader Kim Jong-Il.
Sky's security editor Sam Kiley said the revelation was sensational.
"Up until now WikiLeaks has told us things we could assume - but this is explosive," he said.
"This is Chinese officials talking to American diplomats, describing North Korea - a close ally that the Chinese have been supporting for decades and supported in a war with the UN - as a 'spoilt child'.
"They also refer to North Korea's nuclear capability as potentially destabilising to world peace.
"This effectively puts the Chinese very much in the American camp in terms of their analysis, at least.
"It is an enormous shift from China's public position, which has supported North Korea, to their private position in talks with American officials."
Tensions between the two Koreas ran high last week when the North launched a missile barrage against the South island of Yeonpyeong.
The paper has also published claims about Prince Andrew's "rude behaviour" during a trade mission in Kyrgyzstan.
He is said to have launched an expletive-laden attack against British anti-corruption investigators and journalists for getting in the way of lucrative trade deals.
The latest revelations come after Hillary Clinton said the US "strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information".
She said the release of the secret diplomatic cables was an "attack on the international community".

...highly consistent with the peaceful rise theory.

Let's just say i don't believe in coincidences.

Whatever Wikileaks leaks is from 1966 onward (leaving out the space between 1991-2003 mysteriously) until March 2010. China might have changed its opinion several times since then.

Which country doesn't change their opinion several times?

...highly consistent with the peaceful rise theory.

If we're all going to be honest, then everybody hates everybody. But we don't need to have that level of honesty in front of people from other countries: we all talk $hit about everyone, allies included, when they're not there, everyone knows it, and it doesn't necessarily mean anything. So what if China talks $hit about North Korea in private? You really think North Korea doesn't do the same about China when no one's listening?

If we're all going to be honest, then everybody hates everybody. But we don't need to have that level of honesty in front of people from other countries: we all talk $hit about everyone, allies included, when they're not there, everyone knows it, and it doesn't necessarily mean anything. So what if China talks $hit about North Korea in private? You really think North Korea doesn't do the same about China when no one's listening?

I doubt China hates north korea. Since they give the poor nation aid in violation of UN sancions. yet Northing Happens to china. Who continues to trade with North Korea. It's a joke, this charade between the US and North Korea.

Second that.

I doubt China hates north korea. Since they give the poor nation aid in violation of UN sancions. yet Northing Happens to china. Who continues to trade with North Korea. It's a joke, this charade between the US and North Korea.

Second that.

So long as U.S. can keep an "evil" Kim Jong Il presence and the allure of a collapsing tyrannical regime, there will be no question as to why US even belongs to NE Asia to begin with.

Status quo helps everyone, except the two Koreas.