This line right here is a PIPE DREAM. Have they honored any obligations or kept their word (all this while they were developing a nuke program despite publicly saying they would abandon), in the last 60 years of tyranny and shakedowns? What makes you think they will "adhere to its international obligations"? How absolutely FOOLISH!!!! Would you expect a puppy to "adhere to not peeing on the floor" before being house broken? You can wish and wish and wish, but the puppy would still do what it would do, true to its nature.
At this high level of diplomacy, it is amazing how naive they can become, how susceptible to nuclear blackmail and appeasement. It just turns my stomach because I know the script in advance, I know the press releases down to the worlds, which the State Department will release after claiming "victory" and a ratchet down of tensions. DPRK will be bought off until the next round of escalation and using that which we buy them off, they will only increase their arsenal more behind out backs. Absolutely ZERO CREDIBLITY.
You and I are in full agreement. These saps never learn. They go antsy and screw up again. The Fat Boy in Pyongyang roars and they cower. This is a farce to the highest degree.
Naive? Give me a break. It has absolutely nothing to do with being naive. This is just kicking the can down the road knowing full well it will erupt sometime in the future, hopefully on someone else's watch. This is all about US domestic politics, the prism thru which Obama views foreign policy.