kicking out the US from the penisula so they cant do “training drills” that look like the precursor to mass slaughter of the people of DPRK multiple times every year. finally fully putting an end to the long years of humiliation and colonization suffered by the korean people. access to a ton of arable farm land that would greatly lessen the pressure they’re under to feed the country because of how mountainous the DPRK is which currently causes them to be much more heavily reliant on fossil fuels for the absolutely massive amount of farm machinery+fertilizers needed to intensify agriculture to a level sufficient to stave off famine, although this gain of farmland would depend on the war being relatively quick so the damage to farmlands was not so great.
im not saying they’re going to do it, i was answering “why would dprk want to do this”
as to occupied korea’s military being larger, how would we even know that? not to say you’re wrong but the DPRK always seems to play its cards relatively close to its chest to me so i dont really understand where these military comparisons come from.
I dont even think its the popluation (who by and large already hate their lives in occupied korea anyways lol), moreso its whether they could bribe enough SK officers (especially) generals. imo that’s the condition they would probably be looking for to pull the trigger on any sort of restarting of the hostilities
also the stasis was really bad for the dprk when the USSR collapsed, if china ever collapsed they would be done for so there’s very real incentive there especially with their ideology that emphasizes self reliance to be able to shore up that weakness (relying on china) if the opportunity ever came up