I don't know why previous regimes gave North Korea money, or if they did. Fake news, remember?

Anyhow, I don't think North Korea is a nuclear threat to the United States. Trump brings up North Korea whenever one of his other embarrassments become news.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea