Perhaps, then, we should change the goal, lower our sights, and seek an agreement that limits the North’s nuclear weapons arsenal to a very small number of weapons; dismantles their capability to make more such weapons through either reprocessing or enrichment; bans all future testing of both nuclear devices and ballistic missiles; and establishes verification arrangements that provide reasonable assurance that these serial cheaters and liars do not cheat again—or, at the least, provide us with the capability to catch them before their cheating becomes strategically meaningful.
