North Korea wants recognition that it and the US is still at war (even though the rest of the entire planet does not consider the US and NK to be at war). They

North Korea wants recognition that it and the US is still at war (even though the rest of the entire planet does not consider the US and NK to be at war). They also want the US to directly negotiate with it (NK). Whenever the US feels like negotiating with NK, it calls a meeting with South Korea, China, and Japan... bizarrely and deliberately not involving NK. The political and military (perhaps in NK they are the same thing) leadership in NK belligerently fires missiles and pursues a nuclear weapons program because the current government in NK wants to stay in power, and this is their way of trying to preserve this. I'm not saying it'll work, but that's their line of reasoning.