In North Korea, no deal is better than a bad deal

Any deal with Kim must have a serious payoff to be worth the price. Ideally, that would be North Korea’s complete denuclearization, but at a minimum it must involve the verified dismantling of North Korea's ballistic missile program. Those weapons are the means by which Kim could strike the U.S. homeland. Any deal that sustains those weapons would be disastrous for the long-term security of the U.S.