https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY18Dhlfbp0
>It’s really very simple: North Korea is methodically and deliberately preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war in the Korean peninsula against the USA and her allies.
>The idea, rather, is to force a crisis in the peninsula, at a time and place of their own choosing, in which an American president is faced with options so unappetizing that he (or she) will hesitate, blink, or back down in the face of North Korea’s provocation or aggression.
>And as soon as the American president does this, the US-ROK alliance will be finished. Indeed, if the US commitment to Seoul’s defense is shown to be hollow, South Koreans themselves will militate to get US soldiers out of their country on the double.
>North Korea’s current and ongoing missile launches and nuclear tests serve other purposes as well, of course — international military extortion; domestic legitimacy messaging; and all the rest. But the overriding purpose is to perfect and amass a nuclear arsenal and the attendant weapons delivery systems that will permit Pyongyang to face down Uncle Sam in that moment of truth that three generations of Kims have been preparing for.
>For over sixty years US policy in the peninsula has been to deter North Korea. Why do we have such a hard time understanding that the DPRK’s leadership has spent those same many years thinking about how to deter us?
http://www.aei.org/publication/the-crystal-clear-strategy-of-north-korea/