Don't think the North Koreans would let the Chinese walk in an install a Chinese government. That is much too precarious along ethnic lines and serves as another example of East Asian Imperialism, only this time it's coming from the mainland and not from the Japanese. Conversely, the US would most definitely not be welcome to install a puppet regime, and would see a power vaccuum created very quickly in Pyongyang with that unless the South is prepared to dedicate a tremendous amount of resources to safeguard against civil war.
Either way you look at it, if Pyongyang falls, it's going to be a political mess for years afterwards.
Then there's the millions of juche-brainwashed North Koreans who would have depression and vengenace on the brain for years to come. That would be the great challenge IMO - convincing an entire country that have been conditioned to follow the "Great Leader" to suddenly convert and trust outside forces where murals of their destruction are posted everywhere.
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