North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear warhead development rolls on. But that doesn’t necessarily mean President Trump’s diplomacy with Kim Jong Un’s regime is failing.

To be sure, it’s easy to be disheartened by what’s happening. Following Trump’s landmark June 2018 summit with Kim in Singapore, the North Korean leader pledged to dismantle his nuclear and ballistic missile programs. But since then we’ve seen the opposite happen. Aside from a few meaningless North Korean faux-concessions in the public closure of decrepit facilities, Kim’s regime has boosted its ICBM development. As CNN reports, North Korea is secretly upgrading an ICBM facility close to a previously identified compound. Pyongyang is also working to refine its warhead re-entry vehicle systems.