(cont.) 7.  "What makes this moment so perilous is that North Koreans are steeped in the idea that they have repeatedly defeated the US - and can do so again.  Every single person we spoke to, from officials to students, voiced certainty that if war breaks out, America will end up in ashes and the Kim regime will emerge victorious."

(This is really scary.  NK is looking forward to a nuclear war which they think they will win;  if Kim does not deliver this war, then he would lose face, something Kim cannot and will not allow to happen.)