I just can't figure out what there is to gain from starting something with N Korea. No major resources, politically and economically isolated... perhaps it is a bait to get China involved in a scuffle and somehow use that as leverage in the currency war thingy? Seems rather risky for just a mere distraction from rampant domestic and Middle Eastern unpleasantness as some people believe.
But then again... our dear leaders might be betting that any nuclear exchange will be limited to the peninsula and trading a few million Koreans, the 2nd Inf Div and a city or three, in exchange for endless attention absorbing, single topic MSM headlines just might be worth it, not to mention the unquestionable 1000% increase in borrowed money for the M-I complex that will surely follow, and landslide wartime 'emergency powers' for the Executive... and no public questioning on why we suddenly find ourselves neck deep in preemptively blowing up "nuclear seeking" Iran.
Because don't mind our ****ing things up at home and abroad so badly... LOOK! A mushroom cloud!