The negotiation between N. Korea and U.S. would go on for a while and it will predictably break down. Then they will set off a nuke again. This time they may get it right. unlike previous two tests which left some lingering doubt on their success.
Carrot-Stick. Carrot-Stick. Carrot-Stick. All the while building up capabilities beyond our control and often hidden from our eyes. There is no one more savvy on how to extort money out of clueless Westerners than this group up in Pyongyang. They have refined it to a fine science and art. It is actually beautiful, pristine and dynamic in a sick sense, you have to respect their cunning nature and carry deep disdain of our own repeated foolishness.
They jerk us around at will and have us wrapped around their little finger. It is reprehensible for the most powerful nation in the world to be treated this way by such a third-rate country, but that shows you what benevolent and naive idiots we are--through Democrat and Republican administration alike--for not figuring how to jack around THE NORTH KOREANS for the past 50 years. Meanwhile, MacArthur turns in his grave, and the day approaches that Kim Jong-il sends a diplomatic note through the DPRK UN Mission in New York City to Washington, threatening downtown Los Angeles, or Honolulu with a nuke launch which they will be perfectly capable of, in return from some kind of massive payoff bringing us to our knees. Quite a metamorphasis from our fighting to a standstill in 1953 and a UN arranged Ceasefire. The puny, lackluster DPRK committing nuclear blackmail of the leviathan, invincible United States of America in the early 21st Century. "Mac" would be speechless indeed.