this sentence about North Korea:
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf
Kim remains committed to increasing the number of North Korea’s nuclear warheads and improving its missile capabilities to threaten the Homeland and U.S. forces, citizens, and allies, and to weaken U.S. power in the AsiaPacific region, as evidenced by the pace of the North’s missile flight tests and the regime’s public touting of its uranium enrichment capabilities
But even if I missed something their bottom line assessment and reiterated by Tulsi Gabbard, was that the threat was not so imminant as to preclude waiting until we sat down with them at the negotiating table in a couple of days, before sending bombers and firing missiles into their country.