After U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s “historic” summit last week, it is tempting to heap praise on the meeting as a starting point for defusing tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, which some claim was dangerously close to all-out nuclear war last year.

Or so the small, but vociferous, chorus of defenders of the summit might argue.

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