With only months to go before Moon Jae-in’s term in office ends, Kim Jong Un is dangling the prospect of an inter-Korean breakthrough in front of the South Korean president’s face. But Moon has to play nice, Kim says — otherwise, the North will have to get naughty.

On Monday morning, North Korea resumed communications with the South through key inter-Korean hotlines. Kim suggested he would do this in a speech at the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) at the end of September, in order to realize the desire of the “entire Korean nation” to achieve