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Tomorrow is December 17, 2019, and it has been eight years since Kim Jong Il died and eight years since Kim Jong Un ascended to the North Korean throne.

Like 2018, this year was dominated by foreign policy. Like in the previous one, this policy failed to produce much in the way of meaningful results. And, unlike the previous one, we enter the New Year with little certainty of what the future might hold.

PEACEMAKER’S DILEMMA

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