The best is if talks with the United States go well and North Korea gives up its weapons.

In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

We can give more rice if North Korea asks it in the talks,

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.