I think I've mentioned it before;
North Korea is feverishly building a weapons program to defend itself from history's most belligerent imperial power; the United States.
If you were continually threatened and bullied by a nation with the largest military budget and military industrial complex in the history of mankind, wouldn't you be doing the same?
The West is making hay of these tests because we don't want them to have the capability of defending themselves.
North Korea knows better than to actually use them, these weapons are a deterrent against American aggression. And we ARE the biggest aggressor on the planet. The only countries we don't attempt to invade, destabilize or topple are nuclear armed nations. Russia is the exception to that rule and even then we took advantage of internal division and collapse.
What are we going to do about North Korea? How about leaving them the fuck alone? They're isolated and backward. They don't even have much trade with China. Yes, they're a terrible and totalitarian regime. By many measures, America is headed in the same direction- we just aren't as far along yet.
I don't understand why it's a crime if North Korea tests ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, but it's fine if the United States, France, Great Britain, China or Russia do?
Maybe North Korea doesn't want to become yet another Venezuela, Iran, Libya, Vietnam or any of a number of other nations the CIA and/or our military has destabilized and overthrown.
We are the aggressor; where is the evidence of North Korean military adventurism? It's all defense; there's no offense.