Welcome to another episode of “Crazyness in the Koreas!” Recent activities are probably less issues of conflict and war than:
1. a show of political and military strength of the young successor to the North Korean dictator and
2. a show of political and military strenght of China who will likely evolve as gaining even more credibility in the region.

Does North Korea think they would survive longer than the blink of an eye if South Korea or the United States really wants to shut them up? No, they aren’t that insane. They are simply looking to ruffle feathers and perhaps extract a few billion dollars of financial aid from the political machine in the United States which is obviously very comfortable shelling out taxpayer money to gain personal political power.