Heh! Nothing new about that. Did you know that the most tried and true means of taking absolute control of a small foreign nation is by loaning them HUGE amounts of money through institutions like the IMF and the World Bank? Read all about it in "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins.

This is analogous to the Mafia making a loan to a local shopkeeper who's in a jam. Guess who is in control in that scenario? It's not the shopkeeper.

It is asinine to imagine that North Korea poses any credible threat to the USA. It is not asinine to suppose the opposite proposition. The North Korean government is playing the one game it knows: survival. Like a scrawny, fleabitten rat trapped in a maze, it hopes to survive a bit longer by baring its teeth.

Someone will pofit from any financial transactions between the USA and North Korea. Someone always does. You won't hear who that someone is on the news.