Yezzir. Besides directly threatening us a day ago, they also threatened Australia. The rhetoric is getting pretty alarming. Given Trumps disposition so far, as far as responding to 'red lines', I am pretty sure we will engage in military action against NK.
They can't reach us, but I am genuinely concerned for Japan/SK.
They are threatening as a part of a game. Both for domestic and western audience, to which NK is being painted as a Mordor. Remember that already George Bush jr. called North Korea part of "Axis of Evil"?
I dont fancy North Korea regime, but I dont see that isolated island of nation as a threat either. And you should very well know, that there only two things preventing bombings of the country today. Chinese backing and domestic nuclear arsenal. Countries with nukes dont get invaded.
Western goverments would kill every last North Korean, if it meant "democracy" otherwise.
You dont believe me? Look at Lybia today. Or Afghanistan or any other "democratized" country of the past two decades. What humanitarian purpose did NATO accomplish in any of those places? Yet, you see more and more lemmings and activists pushing for bombing third world nations. "Democracy" (that doesnt even really exist anymore in the west) has become new "Deus vult", rocket armed drones its crusading knights and NGOs its missionaries.
NATO can help the people of the country to eliminate authoritarian regimes. This is because democratic elections in these countries cannot be undertaken. It is the responsibility of people what country they will build in their country. Where the state has influence in Russia there is devastation, and where the West there is prosperity.