KJ Un Chooses Nuclear War Path instead of Peace and Prosperity

Choosing peace and prosperity when the opportunity arises instead of war is nominally at least the better choice. North Korea's Kim Jong Un apparently is duplicitous about his desire for peace and prosperity. His signals to President Trump regarding denuclearization were nothing more than deceit to continue nuclear development through other means. 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pompeo-cites-progress-in-north-korea-nuclear-talks-1530967772

 North Korean leaders played the Clinton administration famously even getting Sect. of State Madeleine Albright to synthetic belly-jig dance . President Trump is unlikely to be so compliant in return for sweet nothings for the media that mean nothing.

KJ Un may be looking to the mid-term election and playing for time hoping that loose democrat party appeasers will return to take over government. Its not really a bad tactic yet it might not work out to well.

 When the former Soviet Union and President Gorbachev faced a similar probably of occupying an inferior strategic military and economic position the leadership choose to just allow glasnost and perestroika to run full course. Peace and prosperity were a better direction than war. Other than Democrat Party failure to work well with Russia after the end of the cold war bringing distrust to those considering letting down their guard and choosing to join mainstream western economics, the decision to change for Russia worked out reasonably well with few casualties, no war and debatably an improvement in the lifestyle of Russian.              

If North Korea rapidly denuclearizes, allows free expression and travel between north and south for business, and officially ends the Korean War, it would be better off quite swiftly and remarkably. Korea could become a technology strongman comparable to Germany. American soy beans could flow by the hundreds of thousands of tons to bring quality vegetable protein to the undernourished. There would be no chance of civil war between northerners and southerners. Therefore I believe Rocket Man is not playing with a full deck.