Thus I reiterate - You do not understand North Korea.

From an American perspective, the storyline on North Korea is that it's a powerless hermit kingdom that poses a grave threat to South Korea, which happens to be one of our staunchest allies. It is a humanitarian disaster and a member of the "evil empire" but it is a long goddamn way from an existential threat. In order for the United States to gin up charges against North Korea based on the f'ing Boston Marathon we would have to trash 20 years of policy and perform a total about-face on our entire foreign stance. Not only that, but we would conclusively demonstrate that we don't give the first shit when North Korea blows the fuck out of our allies but set off one pipe bomb in an American city and the gloves are off.

From a North Korean perspective, the storyline on the United States is that we are ancient demons that provide an existential threat to a devout community of militant acolytes that have never seen an American. There is no aspect of North Korean policy or propaganda that does not seek to illustrate how powerless the United States is. Don't know if you missed it but not two days ago there was a propaganda video in which North Korea nukes the fuck out of NORAD. Which appears to be in Louisiana, but that's the sort of detail that is unimportant to the narrative.

For your allegation to have the slightest chance of being true, the United States would have to suddenly decide that well-known, well-portrayed clowns are somehow an existential threat all of a sudden. And that benefits exactly zero people.

I apologize for failing to relent on this, but the fact of the matter is, North Korea represents a decades-long failure of foreign policy, not Hollywood's latest bogyman-*du-jour*. When you cling to the latter narrative while dismissing the former, you reveal yourself to be superficially informed about the situation and I am not a fan of superficiality.