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Dennis P. Halpin
Dennis P. Halpin, a former Foreign Service Officer and senior Congressional staff, is a consultant on Asian issues.
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The three meetings between President Trump and Kim Jong Un -- Singapore, Hanoi, and, most recently in the DMZ -- have made it easy to dismiss the very bumpy beginnings of North Korean diplomacy in the first year of the Trump administration.