Aardvarks to Zorillas - Anything goes

It is crazy that a cash starved as well as food starved North Korea spends useful funds on Nuclear Armaments, Unfortunately, this is because of the overtures from US that make them belligerent.  US is a trigger happy country and want to act as the cop of the world. This is never an area where there is common world opinion. When countries are cornered by the US and put under pressure, they tend to do something on the contrary. Export of US ideas to other countries is considered a cultural invasion and is always resented upon. This is very similar to the US missionaries that push Christianize the world by economic incentives rather than as a philosophy and as a spiritual way to attain salvation.  Why does not the US take on the North Koreans they way they did with the IRAQIS. The economics of such intervention is never positive and even though North Koreas is much worse than IRAQ was under Saddam, still we do not see the US trying to destabilize North Korea and bring US brand of democrac