[eyedigress]

What you need to get interested in is why NK is acting out. This is more important than anything.

I say let them behave the way they want, now tell us why?

[Braak]

I’d say they’re acting out of sheer desperation. For some reason that makes sense only to Kim and the higher party and military officials, they’ve got their national identity wrapped up in this need to be a nuclear power. They’re willing to starve their own people and run the country into the ground to achieve such a goal, and if they fail, then oh well, then they can bring the rest of the country with them on the proverbial deathride.