The first half of 2018 saw North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sign his name onto two significant declarations making reference to the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,” but neither was particularly detailed when it came to the nature of the concessions to be offered up by Pyongyang.

Both the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the June 12 Singapore Declaration between Kim and U.S. President Donald J. Trump stopped with the vague and the aspirational.

Now, to Moon’s credit, he has managed to secure, in writing, a