Earlier today, I passed along the exciting news that senior State Department official Wendy Sherman had once again helped deliver the North Koreans to the negotiating table, a reprise of her Nork work of the Clinton years.  And indeed, the deal done looks a lot like the deal Mrs Sherman did back then, except….

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