Maybe if the US didnt run around regime changing everyone who doesnt have nukes the likes of N.Korea wouldnt be looking to get them. Cant blame Kim for not wanting to end up like Saddam or Qaddafi or even Assad with US troops in Syria arming rebels.
"That said, experts also testified there's a very high risk with U.S. military action against North Korea because it could result in the Pyongyang regime launching a retaliatory strike with conventional weapons against South Korea and Japan as well as lead to Chinese military intervention on the Korean Peninsula."
I don't get the part about Chinese military intervention. Who would they be intervening on behalf of? I don't think they would get themselves into another Korean War situation where they have to take on the US/SK/Japan on their own.