<human>: Yesterday I read this, 

>The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded with "moderate confidence" that North Korea might have a nuclear weapon that's small enough to be placed on a ballistic missile

And I remembered this, 

>North Korea's recent rocket launch shows it has the ability to fire a rocket more than 10,000km (6,200 miles), South Korean officials say.

In recent weeks we have been getting bombarded with reports about how they have no ability to strike other than the artillery aimed at Seoul. That this is all just kim Jong Un trying to consolidate power and for internal propaganda for its own citizens. Why would a impotent display of power help him internally? His own generals know the state of things better than we do, wouldn't blunt saber rattling hurt him more than help? Couldn't he just lie to his citizens internally like they always have? 

This game seems awfully complicated for a group of people who can't seem to understand basic dictatorship. There have been plenty of countries where generals have ruled and lived as kings while not running the country into the ground. Even Cuba feeds its people. 

What if they really have a missile with a warhead? Even if it is unreliable, its still enough to mean something. I realize that they would be fools to forget that MAD still applies, but maybe they are fools? They probably bought most of the tech they have, they didn't earn it. Anyone smart enough to play a international game of chess is smart enough to know that they could have kept their power while still keeping their country viable. 

I propose that they are idiots. They are the child who found dads gun and think that they truly have power now. Occam's Razor, the leaders of NK believe what they say, and our governments are down playing the risk. They have a piss poor but real nuclear ballistic missile and ether A) think that it gives them enough of a edge to win SK or B) think it earns them a seat at the big boy table which earns them big boy privileges. They are acting like children and children don't understand the consequences of their actions. Our governments know they are a real threat now and are keeping it quiet.

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: A foolish child has a gun, and our parents are telling us its not loaded to keep us calm while they try to figure out a way to get the gun from the child without killing anyone.