The very premise of the question is flawed: North Korea has been at war since 1950, there was never any peace deal signed.
So to peruse Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No.
So to peruse Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No.
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Robert L. Carlin is a nonresident scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a former chief of the Northeast Asia Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the US State Department, where he took part in US-North Korean negotiations.
Siegfried S. Hecker is a professor of practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, a professor of practice at Texas A&M University, and a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and professor emeritus of Stanford University.
On the contrary, I'm saying we are in fact dismissing it by either ignoring or forgetting the fact that North Korea is, and has been, at war. If we are asking if North Korea is "preparing for war", we are in fact dismissing the dangerous state of affairs already concerning that country.
North Korea is at war and is improving their arsenal and capability for that reality, but do we understand that as well? Perhaps we don't.