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It seems that we will soon be watching the final few episodes in another season of that seemingly-endless and repetitive political soap opera known as the “North Korean Nuclear Crisis.”

The current season began around two years ago in early 2018, amid great, if unfounded, hopes and expectations.

But it is now clear that the so-called “North Korean denuclearization process” is stuck once again, and that all the hopes of spring 2018 were stillborn.

There is no reason to be surprised