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This author spent much of last month in Washington DC, mainly talking to a wide variety of North Korea watchers, as I often do at that time of year.

Following what has become an established tradition, I would like to share with NK News readers some impressions of the current mood in the capital of the great and mighty American Empire.

Of course, as usual, I have to be careful with names and, sometimes, deliberately nebulous. Nonetheless, I think, even