China Shoots Starving North Koreans.

Chinese border guards have orders to shoot on sight any North Koreans trying to escape starvation by crossing into China. If these starving people do manage to get across the border and are later picked up they are returned to the tender mercies of the Dear Leader's regime. Two weeks ago, thirteen women and two men were publicly shot in the border town of Onseong for attempting to cross into China.
In the 1990s, millions of North Koreans died of hunger out of sight and out of mind. Now again, criminal governance and crop failures are about to reproduce a similar famine. The Chinese are the only ones to have any leverage over their southern neighbour and they will be rightly blamed for another monstrous disaster if they fail to act promptly.
Instead of machine gunning the victims of their grotesque client, the Chinese need to make sure that massive food relief is distributed to all the North Koreans. The Chinese will need to supervise this distribution and they need to get it under way now.
It would be nice to think that this time the Communist Chinese will act with firmness and humanity. Bearing in mind though the general selfish crude materialism and lack of a moral compass in China's foreign policy, the odds for the wretched North Koreans do not look very good.