IMO, Kim's main objective is to distract the NK people from their misery. What we can't have happen is for him to distract us from the reality that he doesn't have as much power as he or the scaremongers would have us believe.The crazy fat kid appears to be ramping up: Inside North Korea’s Accelerated Plan to Build a Viable Missile
Does anyone want to guess what he and the North Korean government are thinking? Are they so isolated that they don't understand the world will have to squash them? Fairly soon?