Fair comment
Based on the same logic, it is actually North Korea.
At present North Korea is an example of a command state on an extreme war footing. If the situation on the peninsula improves significantly they will collapse politically and economically.
The higher levels in their hierarchy which will be most affected will do anything and everything to continue the 5-minutes before the end of the world stand-off.
This is very similar to our own situation with Russia. When the Soviet Union collapsed, that should have left without a job a gazillion of busybodies in CIA, MI5/6, NATO itself, Foreign Office, State Department, etc (any usual suspect, you name it). They, however, ignored the fact that USSR collapsed and continued to pile operations on regime change, training and financing "freedom fighters", etc. The fact that the freedom fighters went to shoot their ways through maternity wards, primary schools and run planes into buildings on OUR OWN TERRITORY was irrelevant. Though shall not stand in between a 3 letter busybody and his pension, yacht and sprog's college fund. Similarly, none of them has answered for the fact that the whole idiocy resulted in the ultimate blow-back called Putin. If it was not for the continued "keep the conflict alive" Russia would have long sold its nuclear weapons in exchange for some trinkets for the Adorable Alcoholic Kleptocrat in charge. Same as Ukraine.
It is the same story. The biggest benefactors in a conflict which is 5 minutes before going hot and the most active in preventing it are the busybodies on both sides. There are some on the North side of the border and there are aplenty on the south side and in Langley.