North Korea Acting Out, to Get Attention

IT IS A BIT OF A MYSTERY why any American would ever visit a country like, say North Korea, which, as we all well know, does not like us one little bit. Also mysterious is why the North Korean government allows Americans, other than Dennis Rodman, to ever enter its country. Americans, other than Dennis Rodman, are the enemy.Perhaps it gives the North Korean government more options, a greater sense of power, opportunities for kidnapping and political extortion, to have harmless, defenseless innocent Americans within its police state borders. The elderly American gentleman currently being held captive by the dictator will presumably be released very soon; the dictator had better hope the gentleman, who has a heart condition, doesn't die suddenly while in North Korean custody. And they actually had the unmitigated lack of self respect to force the eighty five year old man to read an apology for his actions during the Korean War. He was a criminal invader, part of an army of invading criminals, and so forth. As if the Americans, but not the Chinese, were "invaders" in Korea in 1950. This little dictator of North Korea is too young, and too stupid to be in control of anything. However, North korea has been behaving this way since long before the current dictator was born. The prevailing theory is that the isolated country wants to focus world attention on itself. World attention has lately been elsewhere; Iran, the middle east, and the North Korean regime wants it back. Why? so it can show off its brutal dictatorship? So it can blackmail the world into helping to rebuild the self destroyed economy of North Korea? Will they ever figure out that they're going about it all wrong? Behaving like an angry and cruel child is no way for the government of any responsible nation to ask for help.