I think it would be suicidal for KP to jump into a full scale "hot war" with the US. That said, I could easily see them shooting ballistic missiles into the oc

I think it would be suicidal for KP to jump into a full scale "hot war" with the US. That said, I could easily see them shooting ballistic missiles into the ocean 100 miles off the west coast at random times to cause disruption and chaos in the state that provides the biggest chunk of the US GDP (California). The FAA and US would have no choice but to react as if it "might" be heading for landfall and unable to "launch on warn" because of the geopolitical consequences of obliterating a chunk of KP when their "harmless test" did no damage at all, would be high. So in the "perception is everything" game, KP's moves appear to me to been about making themselves look good and the US look bad. So my non-foreign policy analyst position is that this where I see this going over the next 5 - 10 yrs.