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Our previous article began a tricky task. How should we interpret the sharp new campaign of provocations which North Korea has pursued since early June?

This will be an arduous march, not least because said campaign is far from over. Indeed, it may only just be getting going – though in the last few days things seem to have calmed down a bit, thankfully. We really have no way of knowing what their plan is.

But after a roller-coaster month, some aspects