Is all this media coverage a big reality show to increase our military budget?

North Korean defense minister.
Now that the US has pulled out its sword to kill us, we too will pull out our great sword of justice as well and fight to the end, destroying American imperialists with our enormous and revolutionary power.Our nuclear forces are ready

The United States has 10,500 nuclear weapons; Russia has 20,000; Israel has 110 to 190 or more; China has 400; France has 450; Britain has 185; India has 65; Pakistan has 30 to 50; North Korea has 2 to 9.

Bill Clinton Enabled Korea's Nuclear weapons production program, hard to believe but this happens all the time...

Under Bill Clinton, an agreement called the Agreed Framework was passed whereby an international coalition would replace North Korea's plutonium reactor with two light-water reactors in exchange for 500,000 tons of heavy fuel each year from the U.S. The deal was not popular in Congress, and was scrapped shortly after George W. Bush came to power. In response, the North kicked out its U.N. inspectors and relaunched its nuclear development. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/12/north-koreas-nukes-arent-trumps-fault-former-clinton-advisor-says.html

I remember reading Bill Clinton actually sold nuclear material to Korea as some kind of agreement...Many people question our policies regarding enabling rogue nations, and we have enable many despotic dictatorships all over the world...why?

To justify this vast expense, the Clinton Administration must be able to demonstrate that the United States is indeed threatened by potent foreign enemies. Hence the periodic alarms in Washington over the military power and aggressive designs of Iraq, Iran, Libya and North Korea. Only when Congress and the American people can be shown an authentic—and sufficiently menacing—threat on the horizon will they be prepared to subsidize indefinitely a cold-war-level military establishment. Strategic analyst Michael Klare, in his review of the military budget in the mid-l990s, Tinderbox, Stephen Zunes, p44