The bloke running NK is in my opinion, crapping his pants. Why, because he knows NK can get wiped off the map and world will remember NK for 1 or 2 days until this war starts.

NK snuggles up to both Russian and the Chinese borders and they know the US is out to get both of them and he, being the minnow is simply collateral damage.

He knows the US would love to nuke NK but "accidentally" make sure they go over the border of both China and Russia. He knows damn well that he and his country have everything to loose and nothing to gain by getting into a nuke based exchange with the US and the rest of its slave states.

Paul Wolfowitz, the neoconservative who was Deputy Secretary of Defense under the Bush regime, declared:
“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”

- Paul Craig Roberts.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/04/16/privatization-ramp-corruption-insouciance-ramp-war-paul-craig-roberts/