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June 12 marked the second anniversary of the 2018 U.S.-DPRK Singapore summit. At the time, the meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim was heralded as a pivotal moment in the history of the Korean peninsula, but two years later the anniversary passed largely unnoticed.

The great expectations that marked the first-ever U.S.-DPRK summit were based on the shakiest possible grounds from the very beginning. Yet, surprisingly, many were oblivious to the obvious, and those that met the event with great expectations