Summary: If threats of crippling economic sanctions and complete annihilation of Kim's regime have had absolutely no effect on North Korea's determination to be recognized as the world's tenth nuclear armed nation, nothing will. Hence, one can reasonably deduce this standoff will continue until the United States is forced to accept the same arrangement it has accepted with the Russians. M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. Or, like some like to put it, "Don't Start None, Won't be None".
