To "join the international community" Kim will have to open up a series of horrid prison camps throughout the North which he approves of, and empty them, and expose himself to charges of crimes against humanity by the World Court. (His assassination of his half-brother using chemical weapons on foreign soil is enough to put him in prison for life). Do you honestly think he will do such a thing? He is not sincere. he is merely posturing, to get food, oil, resource assistance, and get the series of UN sanctions dropped which are starting to strangle him; he is "giving up" one facility that is no longer viable anyways; he has made NO statement about dismantling MANY NUMEROUS OTHER NUCLEAR RELATED SITES in North Korea (Pakchon, Taechon, Chonma, Yongjo-ri, Kanggye, not to mention new facilities that they will just build underground and without international inspection we won't know what the hell is going on up there), nor has Kim said anything to his people in their domestic NK media that they are going to give up their nuclear power. The media here in Asia is full of this information -- for some reason in the USA they fail to report it or they do not have reporters here in the region who are honest enough to include this perspective in their reporting...and as a result a bunch of people break out the champagne back home and foolishly prattle "Nobel! Nobel! Nobel!" It is really pathetic to see when viewed against the larger context. We went through this crap with Clinton, Bush and Obama already. Particularly I had my battles with mindless/clueless/ignorant-of-Korean-issues Bushbots here on FR who thought, like Trump, he would be different from Dem's and strong and resolute but it was proven that he too and his advisors such as Condi and Chris Hill fell victim North Korean tricks and machinations. .jpg)
Sorry, we have been down that road too many times. Inscrutable and clever North Korea (and their sponsor who is also playing games behind the scenes in tandem with P'yang, and jacking the Region around) never changes. Naive and out-negotiated America never changes.