This is about as likely as seeing North Korean peacekeepers helping the US military in Afghanistan:

Barack Obama’s historic inauguration as the 44th President of the United States has inspired America and many other countries around the world with renewed hope for more justice, peace and increased economic well being.

While facing domestic challenges ? the economy, health care and energy ? President Obama must also deal with foreign policy priorities ? Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq and nuclear non-proliferation.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons impose a grave security and diplomatic challenge to the Obama administration, which could become more grave if not addressed afresh and correctly from the beginning.

Despite the bitter record of hostility and distrust between Washington and Pyongyang and despite North Korea’s increasing demands, the denuclearization of the North is achievable under President Obama’s leadership.

During last week’s Senate hearing to confirm Hilary Clinton as secretary of state, the direction and the goal of the new administration’s policy on North Korea were unveiled: The Obama administration will pursue direct bilateral and multilateral talks within the six-party process to achieve the complete and verifiable elimination of North Korea’s nuclear programs and inventory.  [Korea Times]

So in other words the Obama administration plans to continue the same Clinton and Bush policies that have not worked.  Never fear Hillary Clinton says she is ready to meet with Kim Jong-il:

But, like President Obama, the new secretary of state-designate said she would be “willing to meet any foreign leader at a time and place” of her choosing.

A Secretary of State traveling to Pyongyang has already been tried before and it did nothing, but provide a propaganda photo op for Kim Jong-il.  I doubt Hillary Clinton is dumb enough to do that.  Like I have been saying before the Obama administration should publicly state they are willing to meet with Kim Jong-il whenever he makes good on the promise he made after the first Inter-Korean summit to visit Seoul. This holds Kim Jong-il accountable for keeping his word while at the same time showing a flexibility on the part of the US administration to meet with him.

The North Koreans by the way have already stated what they want in exchange for giving up their nuclear program:

However, coinciding with Clinton’s hearing, Pyongyang began waging a provocative offensive in rhetoric, clearly intended to convey a message to the incoming Obama administration. On Jan. 13, the DPRK’s foreign ministry spokesman stated that normalization should be realized first as a condition for denuclearization, and nuclear verification should also apply to the South as well.

On Jan. 17, a foreign ministry spokesman, in a response to the secretary of state nominee’s position that “normalized relations will not be possible” without complete and verifiable denuclearization, said that the DPRK would not give up its status as a nuclear weapons state even after normalization, “as long as it is exposed even to the slightest U.S. nuclear threat.”

In other words they have no plans of giving up their nukes for reasons that have been stated over and over again.

Here is how Tong Kim ends his article:

The North Koreans should understand that the Obama administration will be serious and flexible in engaging them, but it will never accept them as a nuclear power.

After a thorough review of where the issue was left off by the Bush administration, and after a development of new ideas and creative approaches, the Obama administration will deal with North Korea more pragmatically to achieve a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.

Denuclearization is still achievable.

More pragmatic????  The Bush administration bent over backwards to give Kim Jong-il everything he wanted and then some with little to nothing in return.  I have seen so far nothing that encourages me with how the Obama administration would do anything drastically different from the Bush administration.  There are better options.