President Trump, dancing to Kim Jong Un’s fiddle, agreed to another summit with the North Korean dictator at the end of February. Although there is likely to be plenty of pomp surrounding the follow-up to the first summit meeting in Singapore last summer, there is little reason to expect a breakthrough from a new sit-down meeting between the two leaders.

Throughout North Korea’s history of negotiating with U.S. presidents over its nuclear program, the reclusive rogue state has repeatedly played up the possibility of dropping its weapons programs in exchange for sanctions relief, only to go back to business as usual. Current negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea have continued in the same fashion.