As fellow nerds who may or may not have been bullied in middle/high school, did you not ever run into that one bully that said "I'm gonna beat you up!!" But never actually did?
That, my friends, is North Korea.
My Gaming Setup | WoW Paladin (retired)
"This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks."
They're just asking to be freed
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
North Korea is just as scared of "us" as we are of them. They think that, as soon as they can show the US that they have working nuclear missiles that can reach them, they'll be safe from the kind of aggression the US has shown in Iraq. And they're probably right.
I don't think this matters nearly as much as you think it does.