Its back to square one with Pyongyang.

(From The Statesman (India))

world view JONATHAN POWER Perhaps you need to be a long-range meteorologist to understand US-North Korean diplomacy on nuclear weapons. The scene changes as swiftly as the sky over the ocean on a windy, autumnal day. Small white clouds chase big dark ones. The sea, ruffled by waves, changes from green to dark blue to almost black and soon the observer is lost in the shades of colour, unable to discern whether the day will turn out good or bad. One thing we should all agree on: the weather is worse than a decade ago when President Bill Clinton, aided by the intervention of former President Jimmy Carter, managed to negotiate with the late President Kim Il Sung a nuclear freeze …