A new day has dawned for U.S. foreign policy — especially when it comes to policy that involves North Korea. As such, the fantasy of “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization” (CVID) is at an end, to be replaced with more realistic goals that do not require the extremes of face-to-face meetings with Kim Jong Un or threats of total destruction. 

Or so we tell ourselves. 

At least so far, we don’t really know what U.S. President Joe Biden will replace CVID with. His administration’s policy review is nearly completeand may answer the question of what the next four years