According to the Spring 2003
According to the Spring 2003 issue of the American army journal Parameters:
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Since at least the mid-1990s, there has been a widespread view among Korea observers that, because of severe economic decline, food shortages, and related problems, regime survival has replaced reunification as Pyongyang’s most pressing objective. Further, these observers argue, despite its rhetoric, North Korea realizes that reunification through conquest of South Korea is no longer possible. There are also some who argue that the North Korean leadership has recognized the need to initiate substantial change in order to survive in the international community and is embarking on economic reform, reconciliation with South Korea, and reduction of military tensions.
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/Articles/03spring/hodge.pdf Just like any other capitalist state in fact.