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December 24, 2024

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Why birthday card diplomacy can’t revive failing U.S.-North Korea talks

Good relations between Kim and Trump can't conceal how broken the diplomatic process has become

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If North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s remarks to the Workers’ Party Central Committee in late December was a precedent for what is coming down the pike, we could be experiencing a long, cold, dead winter with diplomacy shivering in the wilderness.

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