North Korea is firing missiles, because NATO air defenses have proved to be totally useless

Many journalists have been speculating about why, exactly, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been firing so many missiles lately. Generally, the answer given is that Kim is trying to provide a kind of "moral support", to Russia, during the course of the current war in Ukraine. This is possible, I suppose, but, I rather doubt that it's really necessary. After all, the Ukrainian government itself is telling all citizens to leave Ukraine, if possible, because otherwise they are likely to freeze to death this winter, due the extreme effectiveness of Russian missile strikes on power and heat infrastructure. One could argue that, at this stage, the nation of Ukraine is rather like a guillotined head, its mouth and eyebrows still twitching, because it doesn't quite realize that it's already dead. A rather more likely explanation for Kim's behavior is simply that the very best NATO air defenses in Ukraine have proven rather sieve-like, allowing most Russian missiles, even very cheap, easily manufactured Iranian drones, to get through to destroy completely, repeatedly, essential Ukrainian infrastructure. Now the direct implication of this, which the Western media really doesn't want to make public, at all, is that Kim Jong-un can completely destroy the entire United States with nuclear tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, any time he happens to be in the mood to do so. Given the Western media's predilection to present Kim as an uncontrollable mad dog, we can all see it would be somewhat inconsistent, or uncomfortable, anyway, to simultaneously present him as having the power to annihilate the U.S. on whim. Which, apparently, anyway, he currently has. You see, what the current Russo-Ukrainian war demonstrates, is that, not only does the Pax Americana no longer exist, it's not even clear whether the U.S. is even a world military power anymore. Because, Russia has already won the war, without NATO generals quite understanding how exactly it happened. Suddenly, it's quite clear that nations like North Korea, Pakistan and Iran can turn the entire U.S. into glaze anytime they want to, and there's nothing whatsoever the U.S. can do about it. Really.