During a break at a July Washington forum by the Korean Economic Institute of America, South Korean National Assembly Chairman of the Armed Services Committee told Newsmax reporter John Gizzi that he hoped that the US/Iran nuclear deal could provide "lessons" to North Korea that an agreement to keep from developing a nuclear bomb in return for ending of sanctions can be desirable.

On the other hand, the Chair of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator John McCain, in opposing the Iran nuclear deal, claims that the "failure" of the US/DPRK nuclear agreements should be a "lesson" for us not to make a deal with Iran.

If we are to learn "lessons" from the past, we must remember the whole history.  First of all, the US is still at war with North Korea, and we have never taken our first use of nuclear weapons off the table.  It is not unreasonable for them to call their nuclear weapons program "a deterren."