Wasn't this also Trump's strategy when first dealing with North Korea? Prior to Trump, North Korea was always rewarded with foreign aid whenever they made a fake threat against us. Trump came in and responded to their fake threats with very real threats of our own. That's why the media was crying that we were going to get into a war with them, which probably helped Trump to get NK to the negotiation table.

It's interesting that they're doing this rather than going back to the Obama-era policy of appeasement. Unfortunately, I don't think we have anyone in the Potato's government that is capable of negotiating a peace deal with NK if we get them back to the table.