Learn to play the game.
It's like reading a chess board or the body telegraphs of a fighter. When you know what is on the table, where the weight is, then you know what is possible or what is going to have power behind it.
If you want the non-Q version, Razorfist has a great explanation for why NK has few options on the table but to negotiate. Fact of the matter is that NK has been a sort of mathematical impossibility for some time. Math and economics simply cease to exist beyond the Demilitarized Horizon. Whatever was going on there was as a proxy to powers who do not want to exterminate the planet over … Whatever. Another oddity of politics… Why anyone ever cared what NK was doing.
It's rather obvious that most of what "goes on" in relation to North Korea is smoke and mirrors, and when confronted with an unveiling of the man behind the curtain, the whole of the media is going to crank the fog machines into overdrive at the Disco panic.
Sit back and enjoy the show.