We call them mad. Chesterton said a madman is not someone who has lost their reason, but one who had lost everything but their reason.
What is NK’s reason? They want to humiliate and manipulate the US, they want immense power based on raw threat. But to what end? I don’t believe they want to colonize.
Is it that they have no other way to support themselves except ransom for their hostages on both sides of the parallel?
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They desire repatriation of the entire Korean peninsula.
They want to own the manufacturing base of Seoul.
They see the deals cut with the ChiComs and think - why not us?