Speaking to North Koreans in Pyongyang these past few days, it’s as though last year’s “fire and fury” back-and-forth between President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un never took place.

Locals wryly told journalists that anti-American posters, long a mainstay of Pyongyang streets, will remain out-of-sight as long as diplomacy continues – though foreign journalists were able to see some hidden away in a local factory.