If North Korea has made the “strategic shift” that Secretary Pompeo claimed they had, there is precious little from his trip to Pyongyang this week to demonstrate it.

With a stream of revelations about ongoing nuclear and missile activities, the Secretary was reduced to bargaining over a small-bore concession that had supposedly already been granted: the destruction of a missile-engine test stand.

And even with limited progress on that concession, the North Koreans were quick to bad-mouth the talks.

If there is any silver lining to Pompeo’s visit, it was the growing evidence that the American conception of the