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3 Signs the Korean Olympics Truce Won't Last

It’s been a relatively quiet February on the missile-testing front. March could be different.
Source: Reuters / Yonhap

The closing ceremony of South Korea’s Winter Olympics marks the end not just of , , and , but also of an interlude in the international crisis over North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program. In recent weeks we’ve witnessed North and South Koreans and competing together, American Vice President Mike Pence rubbing elbows with the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and of a grand summit between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae

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