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Vietnam liberated itself from occupation and reunified under a single Marxist-Leninist government. It has a population of 100 million people. It decisively defeated the US militarily. All of this gives it a very strong position to engage with the global economy. Korea remains divided and under occupation, the DPRK has a population of only about 26 million, far less than half of the peninsula's, and remains in a state of frozen conflict with the US and its proxies. It has no power to leverage on the global stage.
So if North Vietnam and South Vietnam were still separate countries, do we reckon that North Vietnam would be a lot like the DPRK right now?
The other thing is not that the DRPK refuses to cooperate with the US, but that the US refuses to cooperate with the DRPK. It the US was willing to lift the sanctions and open democratic channels, the DPRK would not refuse. If they could get the deal Vietnam or China has, they'd take it.
This already happened with the nuclear deals made in the 90s/00s where they took the agreed upon steps in good faith, but the US shafted them. Why bother?