When it came to North Korea, 2018 was the year of moon shot diplomacy: a year of aiming high and starting high, dramatically raising the stakes with little sense of whether we could achieve the goal we set for ourselves.

In the United States, a “moon shot” refers to the concept of making a huge bet on a potentially impossible task. In a September 1962 speech by President John F. Kennedy that has since become legend, he declared that “we choose to go to the Moon in this decade…” and made a passionate case for shooting for the Moon