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There are times, or used to be, when nothing much is happening in or around North Korea. Sometimes for months on end. This emphatically isn’t one of them.

Just three weeks have passed since I last wrote here. But with the rush and roller-coaster of subsequent events, it feels like a lot longer than that.

What is going on? What is Pyongyang playing at? We are still very much in medias res– in the midst of ongoing events – so maybe