TPTB want a new conflict to distract the masses from paying attention to the ongoing economic collapse. Plus a war gives them an excuse to implement more tyranny at home, all in the guise of homeland security.

Stewart Rhodes and Brandon Smith on N.Korea, the Economy,
http://youtu.be/4wNU3IKe3S0

"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861