3. Diplomacy: North Korea can use nuclear weapons against China in the face of national survival or external attacks, including US nuclear strikes, so as to force China to carry out nuclear counterattacks against the United States and other countries, so as to curb the attacks of the United States and other countries on North Korea, thus achieving nuclear restraint and putting China in an extremely passive position.
4. From the follow-up: North Korea already possesses nuclear weapons, so Japan and South Korea also have reasons to possess nuclear weapons, which may trigger a nuclear race in East Asia, thus greatly increasing the unstable factors around China.