"The players are frustrated. They know they've been the better team in both games but have come out on the wrong end of the result. But we've got our objectives and we want to keep developing our attacking play.
"We're looking at the bigger picture, which is heading towards the Olympics in Rio in 2016, so we'll just take the great learnings from this game and move forwards.''
The result was a dramatic improvement on the last time New Zealand played North Korea - they went down 11-0 in Brisbane in 2004.
"The team have developed a massive amount since then,'' Readings said. ``If you look at the performance today, we can be dominant against a top-10 side in the world and, if you go back to 2004, we would have struggled to keep the ball and we would have been hanging on. That shows how far this team has come.''
Several individual milestones were reached on Thursday as defender Abby Erceg became the most-capped senior international women's player in New Zealand history, playing in her 91st A international match, moving one ahead of Hayley Bowden. Striker Hannah Wilkinson earned her 50th senior cap.
