Synopsis Pyongyang’s destabilizing conduct can be seen as communications with three consistent audiences, namely North Korean citizens, the U.S.-ROK alliance and the West. This could signal why durable rapprochement is extremely difficult.         Pyongyang’s recent moves to supply Russia with ammunition, artillery systems, ballistic missiles  and even combat vehicles , along with the prospective future dispatch of tanks, and 6000 engineering/construction  troops, to bolster