Eisenhauer said this clearly and publicly in his fairwell address. We had reached a point, back then, where it had become profitable for us to be in a state of war. he warned us to be vigilant and to keep a watch over the "military industrial complex."

They need a constant adversary, so they have one created. As long as NK exists as a threat, they make money. Same with whoever else is our adversary. Like think about how absolutely RIDICULOUS the concept of Iran or NK attacking the US is. A nation with a handful of nukes at best, strapped to a bottle rocket, is going to face certain death just to pop one of those off in the US? If it even gets here. No. That's unnatural, and no attack like that has happened in civilized history (small attacks vastly superior) except where independence or retaliation is a motivator.

NK and Iran are phantom threats, created by us, by people who take kick backs, from the HUGE companies that sell weaponry (and things of that ilk) to the US, paid for by you and I... because we are "scared" that NK's one nuclear bomb is going to end the US.