I agree that there is a lot of propaganda being directed against the DPRK by the western mainstream media. That said, we can't ignore the fact that Kim Jong Un is being arrogant and rude. There was no need to conduct all those nuclear tests and missile launches at this point of time, when the relations are strained beyond the limit.

Behind the Trump administration’s sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude the country is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.

That acceleration in pace — impossible to verify until experts get beyond the limited access to North Korean facilities that ended years ago — explains why President Trump and his aides fear they are running out of time. For years, American presidents decided that each incremental improvement in the North’s program — another nuclear test, a new variant of a missile — was worrisome, but not worth a confrontation that could spill into open conflict.