[HiTech RedNeck]

And the question now is whose “pocket” will this “Stalin” go into.

It’s a big risk, but I don’t know what else a conscientious world could try, with a mad nuclear slob like that in its midst. The stakes are too great to say oh, let’s just let NK wallow from here to eternity.

[Cronos]

in terms of realpolitik, what should be done is promise Kim the moon if he eliminates his nukes -- and enforce that denuclearization along with China's help

THEN, once the nukes are gone, to make a deal with China that Kim dies, the Koreas are reunited, the US army leaves Korea.