LOL..well, I did say that. So that invalidates your statement.
No, because you can't connect those dots. Obviously that is what I meant, but I will be sure to spell these things out to you, going forward.
The ONLY reason that America worries NK is because American troops are based in South Korea when a technical state of war still exists with South Korea.
Utter nonsense. The United states maintains a geo-political buffer against China and russia by stationing troops in Japanese, Korean, and taiwanese territory. And it just so happens that it is widely believed that North Korea would already have tried to shell South Korea into submission decades ago (and still would desire to do so), if we did not have troops there.
Furthermore, North Korea has been indoctrinating its citizenry to go to war against the united states for 60 years. It was always known they would try to get a nuclear weapon that can reach our territory, and now they can. So your flip, toss-off assessment of our interests there and in the entirw region is ignorant of history. And completely ambivalent , AGAIN, toward the actions of our enemy, North Korea. THEY indoctrinate their citizens to go to war wuith the United states. THEY seek nukes and ICBMs and threaten us with them over even the slightest possible aggression..
If America removes it's troops from South Korea and tells them they are on their own...what possible reason would North Korea have for calling America an enemy?
Because we are harming their kleptocracy due to crushing sanctions, themselves due to them being a rogue nation where its people are raped starved and imprisoned by a military dictatorship. We deny them weaponry and raw materials. We deny them normalization on the world stage.
Why did Assad hate us? w didn't have troops on his doorstep, and we weren't protecting a neighbor he wanted to invade. Oh, I'm sure you will find a reason that ones our fault, too. Same for Iran. Well, besides protecting the neighbor.