The Communist dictatorship in Albania lost in elections in 1992 after calling and actually winning the first real elections there in 1991. The Ponzi schemes led to the electoral defeat of a post Communist elected govt in 1997, returning the (by then) ex-Communists to elected power.
The sort of instability Albania and other ex-Communist countries experienced to varying degrees (including Russia) are likely for the DPRK once the dam breaks and Kims are ousted, that I’d agree with. Probably worse if some kind of stand alone non-Kim dynasty NK is engineered to avoid Chinese fear of US influence on its borders via the ROK. It might be less bad in a situation where instead a post Kim NK is part of a greater ROK, like the stabilizing influence of German unification on the former East Germany. Except as we all know the NK population is much larger relative to the ROK’s than E was to W Germany’s, much poorer relatively, and much more screwed up by generations of a regime that really is not comparable to almost any other. Indonesia? Even in the '60’s Indonesia wasn’t anywhere near as screwed up as NK. A lot of people died in a quasi civil war there, but what the Kim’s have done has little direct parallel anywhere else.
Anyway Albania offers little IMO of a model of how the Korean (dynastic) Communists would fall in the first place. As John Mace mentioned, Albania was a part of a whole E European ‘contagion’ of overthrowing Communists, and repeated examples where the Communists weren’t willing to kill people in large numbers (or at least couldn’t get security forces to do so) to preserve themselves. That’s a key condition not applying to NK, or we have no way of knowing it would apply, and it’s also hard to imagine the Kim dynasty calling real elections like the Albanian Communist reformers did.
The most China can pressure NK into doing, is to de-nuclearize, and that’s if China REALLY turned the screws. You can’t “pressure” a dictator into abdicating.
You are being self-righteously absurd. Not to mention, that you utterly failed to read what I actually WROTE, and instead made up what you wanted to PRETEND I wrote, in typical bombastic nonsense fashion that self-righteousness always falls into.
As many others have mentioned, there is no practical way to free them. Our goal should be to do our best to prevent the deaths of millions of South Koreans that would likely die if the US military intervened in any way. My guess is that the people of Seoul would still be attacked by NK even if it was the Chinese doing the invading. Best case scenario (which I admit is highly unlikely) is that eventually one of Kim Jong Un’s successors sees the error of his ways and decides to surrender peacefully. I don’t think there is anything any outside actors can do that would have any positive effects, not even the Chinese. Let’s imagine that China closes the border completely, not allowing even basic goods to cross. All that would do is make Kim feel like he’s backed into a corner and probably cause him to launch attacks. And short of closing the border or outright invasion, I don’t see what China can do. The US, obviously, has even less influence or ability to change the situation.