72 days after they were scheduled to meet on November 7, 2018, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean official Kim Yong Chol finally met in Washington, D.C., to resume the stalled diplomatic process between their two countries that began early last year.

The postponement of Kim’s trip in November left the process between the two sides largely in doldrums, with little progress to speak of in the intervening weeks on the gamut of issues under consideration in talks, ranging from the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula to U.S. consideration of sanctions relief for