Cheap labour does not make ICBMs, their warheads, their facilities, their upkeep or replacement. NK is nowhere near to an ICBM, to a warhead, and for all their 'plentiful supply of Uranium to make many bombs a year' - a claim as I seriously doubt as NK can barely maintain its nuclear power plants, much less enrichment centers - barely clock out any successful nukes over the last ten years. According to the Institute for Science and International Security, they have at most 10 - 10 nukes, non warhead capable - whose megatonnage is a mere 0.5.

NK pursues nukes to become untouchable, not a juggernaut. They don't have the capability to be one. All they can do - technically, all Un can do - is grab onto as much as he can to stay in power, that's all he cares about. That means getting a nuke so he can dangle the threat of killing millions before he goes down. That means keeping his generals and main supporters happy with their black market trade through Asia.

That's it. There's nothing to negotiate. Everything is the same as it's always been. Everyone knows it, yet somehow we keep falling for the damn same headlines over and over.