With U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday cancelling the summit meeting, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is more uncertain than it has been since the beginning of the year.

Many pundits, of course, worried if the summit would fail or whether it would happen at all.

In a March 9 op-ed for The New York Times, Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair Victor Cha expressed concern that “while the unpredictability of a meeting between these two unconventional leaders provides unique opportunities to end the decades-old conflict