You are right. That people on FR still think NK is operating with sincerity, or that they are telling the truth, or that they can somehow be trusted, or they they are going to negotiate in good faith and that all problems on the Korean Peninsula “snap!” are now somehow gone just. like. that. overnight... well....—has got to be one of the oddest things I have seen in a long time on this forum, at least in my 21 years here.
The term “regime change” was invented for situations like this... But of courses that’s always easier said than done, and is the gateway to unintended consequences.