While the attention of millions of Americans has been fixated upon the midterm election, there was a bizarre change of pace in the White House on Wednesday morning. At 9:00 AM in Washington D.C., White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook held a joint press conference which announced the expansion of the fast food chain into the true Korea.

Sanders said that “President Trump is extremely optimistic about this extension of American culture into the DPRK,” and Easterbrook followed up Sanders’s remarks by stating that “perhaps the burgers which have kept America together for decades can bridge the international divide between the United States and the DPRK.”

The announcement is an indication of the growing cooperation between the North Korean government and the Trump administration. In recent weeks, North Korean nuclear test sites have been reopened which has prompted widespread outrage in the international community. Both the Trump administration and the Kim regime hope to assuage these concerns through their bilateral economic cooperation.

The news comes in the wake of Kim Jong-Un’s remarks on the state news television network, Korean Central TV, in September that he would continue to proliferate nuclear weapons unless the Americans satisfy his two terms for nuclear disarmament. It has become clear over the past six months that Kim Jong-Un’s first demand is a security guarantee from the United States, but until late October the nature of the second demand remained unknown. A few weeks ago, a top North Korean official notified the Trump administration that the Supreme Leader wanted nothing more than “a security guarantee and the best hamburgers in America.”

In light of these recently uncovered details, it seems as if the United States government is sending a mixed signal to the Kim Regime. On one hand, President Trump has indicated that security guarantees are still on the table, but on the other, the White House chose to expand McDonald’s into Pyongyang which is anything but “the best hamburgers in America.” Over the next few years, it will be interesting to see which takes priority for Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un: his desire to maintain his government’s security, or his appetite for Big Macs.