Comment: The Chinese always play a duplicitous game, and the cereal-bowl-haircut-lunatic in NK is their boy: lock stock and barrel.

They have no intention of reining in Kim - he is doing exactly as the Chinese leadership wants and intends him to do - act as a bargaining chip.

The Chinese don't want THAAD deployed- but rather than raising it directly with the US, their bellicose little attack dog in Pyongyang is instructed to do it for them in his inimitable way.

Quite the theater production.