Ok totally amateur musings about North Korea I think a pivot to the international system makes a lot of sense for Kim, and to the extent this happens it's probably a loss for Chinese regional hegemony And so maybe this is good for American global power, if you're into that
yeah, that's my guess too probably he's playing against two main threats: (i) internal, and I know nothing about those but I'm sure they exist; (ii) Chinese intervention, possibly via (i) (??????? incredibly speculative)