nobody has tried acceptong the sad fact that dprk is a bonafide nuclear power with working missikes and everything. the time to fix this was when bill was getting blown in the oval office and its frankly too late.

we need to begin the normalization process and just accept the fact that they are a nuclear power, and stop pretending like its some far away possibility. they have nukes, missiles and they could flatten seoul, tokyo, destroy carrier strike groups in 10 minutes and kill every us soldier in s. korea in a quick hurry. those troops are just the canary in the coal mine. 

so lets deal and get what we can from them. assurances. oversight to ensure there is no technology transfer to isis or al-qaeda. iaea inspections? let them have their self defense in return for reasonable assurances they wont use them unless attacked first. then the ball is in our court. as long as we dont attack them, nobody gets nuked. lift some sanctions, let the people eat its a win/win.