Also one has to realize that N. Korea serves as a convenient "boogey man" for western occupation of S. Korea. If there wasn't continuing tension, the US would not be able to sustain the facade of being the world police.

At this point, "the NK threat" is simply the post hoc excuse the US uses to continue its occupation of SK and Japan, with their ultimate aim being, if necessary, to militarily contain a rising China, in order to desperately cling on to its increasingly weak global hegemony. John Pilger made a pretty convincing case of this in his recent documentary, @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6StL-AJLDwY

The Coming War on China

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