Nuclear threat from North Korea

[Anomalocaris]

The dick is obviously a narcissist.
He wants to be seen as an equal with the big boys.
Even if it's just to reinforce his godly powers to his peons.

I'm pretty sure he's not deluded enough to even dream of attacking anybody.
Life must suck without any friends.

Don't make him out to be a raving lunatic. That guy has been educated in Switzerland at a private institution. He's reported to have enjoyed the high life, just as his father did. So, his decisions are rational. Maybe in a creepy way, but still rational. He wants to stay in power is probably the main goal. So he has to present something to his own people and he has to tell the West, who considers his domain as one of the evil empires, that he's well capable to make them bleed. A perfect rationale in my opinion.

The guy is a 30 year old playboy born into the utmost privilege and who really has the absolute power of life and death over septuagenarian generals and senior most beuracratic, to say nothing of every other lesser vermin, I meant human, in North Korea.   How much difference is Swiss private school going to make on the sanity of such an individual?

In any case, true sanity would not be fully expressed purely in the possible immediate rationale of the next step he takes. It has to be judged in the plausibility of success for the fundamental strategy for which he takes that step. If he wanted his regime and himself to survive, his strategy should be dramatically different.