So the ChiComs are starting to establish plausible deniability, They must have ordered little Kim to do something disturbing.
Most of the “experts” tell us that North Korea’s missile and nuclear technology is primarily intended to enhance defense and regime survival. However it is possible that the North Korean strategic planning is directed toward getting the U.S. out of the peninsula and then successfully invading the South. This is the dream of North Korea for decades, and perhaps their true long-term goal since the time of Kim Il-Sung. One can imagine a rational person saying the nukes would facilitate such a scenario in the absence of an effective deterrent offered by the U.S. A surprise invasion, previously deemed impossible or difficult because of the South’s conventional superiority, might become plausible. And the view that the South would ultimately win any conventional war, widely expressed by experts on the subject, might not be shared (correctly or incorrectly) by the North’s generals who have followed their military-first philosophy their entire lives. Usually one has a more optimistic assessment of one’s own capabilities.