Bullsh*t - the North Koreans are playing us. Again.
Maybe. But how do you think it will go for them if they are jerking the world around, this time? Why would they have already compromised the deity of their Dear Leader by releasing an official photo showing him standing in a demonstration of equal status with standing South Koreans, instead of sitting while others stand in the traditional manner of demonstrating superior status? They can't take that photo back.
Maybe fixing these long-standing, seemingly intractable problems isn't so difficult after all, provided one fundamental change is made. That would be simply for the American participants to not be diabolical psychopaths who exploit every calamity or human failing for maximum profit and/or enhancement of personal status.
Actually making an honest effort to succeed seems to yield much better results, who would have guessed? Gee, do ya think maybe most of these persistent problems which government has grown to gargantuan size to address, might not be such big problems if not for government malfeasance in the first place?