I can see my nukes from here! Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images All of a sudden, North Korea and South Korea are two old chums singing kumbaya with each other, and the United States is on the outside looking in. The countries are holding their first talks in two years ahead of the Winter Olympics, which take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in February. North Korea has promised to send a delegation to the games, which counts as a major diplomatic breakthrough. (Perhaps even more excitingly, the country will also send “a cheering squad and a performance-art troupe.”) And Kim Jong-un’s hermetic dictatorship apparently wants to assure the rest of the world that it doesn’t have any serious beef with its southern neighbor — just with America. On Tuesday morning, a North Korean official said that the country’s weapons were pointed only at the United States, not at South Korea, Russia, or China. The official also said that North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear program is not an issue between North and South Korea. These claims are almost assuredly false, but are signs that Kim wants to position himself as a stable and serious negotiating partner with his neighbor, at least for the…