The North Koreans are just trying to win the "Enemy Try-outs": http://www.theonion.com/onion3412/enemytryouts.html
All I have to say is: Thanks Mr. Carter for that wonderful peace deal you worked out with N. Korea. We agreed to fund them for the next 10 years, build them two nuclear power plants, give them food and oil aid that they stash away for the military to use later. And they agree to pretend to stop persuing nuclear weapons while we look the other way. It really worked didn't Mr. Carter? (Well at least you got a Noble Peace Prize out of that fake facade of peace.) Now, why don't you go hold yourself hostage somewhere, like you did when you were President.
Oh, and now the North Koreans are backpedalling... http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/11/18/nkorea.us.nukes/index.html