Gormley: What does North Korea really want? To survive

It is fair to assume that human civilization generally wishes to avoid obliteration by nuclear war. It should be admitted at the outset, however, that we cannot know all that the regime of North Korea wishes for itself. We know too little about how it thinks. 
We know what it says in public, but this is often a lie and always an exaggeration. We know as well what it shows the public; this, though, is a nearly-three-quarters-of-a-century-long piece of performance art. 
So despite inside