You’re right. This is a very minimum olive branch and makes the NK feel like they are getting something. It’s not hard to resume war games.
And what is the U.S. getting in return?
This
Al lot of these war games is joint Command Post exercises - that part can still be exercised
War games can be conducted elsewhere just as many regional war plan scenarios are exercised elsewhere
The more access the free world gets to North Korea the more we know about them, anyway, and the better for all