One hundred days have now passed since Moon Jae-in took over the Presidency of South Korea. Since then, North Korea has conducted seven ballistic missile launches – including two tests of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) – and the situation on the Korean peninsula has grown markedly tenser.

Some may have expected a rosy future for inter-Korean relations and dreamt of “Sunshine 2.0” when Moon, a former aid of the late President Roh Moo-hyun, entered the Blue House. After a campaign in which he promised a peace treaty with the North and pushed for “economic unification,” voters were expecting