The enemy could be friend, the friend is the danger.

"North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the Untied States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday." "Kim Hyok Chol was executed in March at Mirim Airport in Pyongyang, along with four foreign ministry officials after they were charged with spying for the United States, the Chosun Ilbo reported". In February, Donald Trump walked out of a summit with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi after Kim demanded lifting of all sanctions without making any commitment on nuclear disarmament. At the time, some saw it as a snub to Trump and a "tough lesson in North Korean diplomacy". I thought it was the very opposite and wrote, "At the very least, Kim has lost an enormous amount of face in front of his officials at being so contemptuously dismissed by Trump. He will not sleep easy from now on for fear of a coup." However, news of executions have not been confirmed and have been frequently wrong in the past, but in an ominous editorial North Korea's official newspaper Rodong Sinmun warned that "betrayers" and "turncoats" who are guilty of "anti-party" and "anti-revolutionary actions" will face "stern judgement of the revolution". To show that he is not scared of the US Kim has been test-firing short range missiles which was described as a new "tactical guided weapon" "The missiles flew between 70km and 200km (45-125 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan." On a visit to Japan, Trump was undisturbed. "I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me," he said. Kim maybe polite towards Trump but his politeness is not extended to members of the Trump administration. US National Security Adviser John Bolton was labeled a "warmonger" and a "defective human product" by an unnamed North Korean spokesman after Bolton said that missile tests are a violation of UN Security Council resolution and called for sanctions to be maintained. North Korea described former Vice President Joe Biden as a "fool of low IQ" after Biden called Kim Jong Un a "dictator" and a "tyrant". "What he uttered is just sophism of an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, seized by ambition for power," said North Korean state media. Clearly, a dictator doesn't like being described as a tyrant. The US will never invade North Korea because South Korea's capital city Seoul is just 35 miles from the border and will incur mass casualties. But what about China? China is the main support for North Korea but at the same time Beijing does not want a reunification between North and South Korea, as happened between East and West Germany in 1990. Kim is probably afraid that China may attack if he becomes an ally of the US, in which case he needs his nuclear weapons to defend himself, not against the US, but against China. But he cannot say that. You have to feel sorry for Kim.