As long-term readers are aware, in the past, yours truly has occasionally published short reports about my trips abroad and conversations about North Korea with policymakers in various countries. 

The pandemic put a pause on these international meetings, but I finally managed to visit Washington, D.C. last month, finding a peculiar and strange ghost town of sorts where most still preferred to work remotely.

One issue where my interlocutors demonstrated a complete agreement is the assessment of the Biden administration’s attitude to North Korea. All agree: The DPRK is very low on the administration’s priority list. 

The White House has