While speculation has recently reached fever pitch in South Korea surrounding the possibility of a Kim Jong Un visit before the end of the year, it is looking increasingly unlikely that it can happen so soon.

Various other summits involving the DPRK have been delayed into 2019, several of Pyongyang’s other inter-Korean pledges have recently fallen behind schedule, and the anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death on December 17 means that Kim may have limited diary availability for any visit soon.

However, with Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in surprising the world with the unexpected