Far be it from me to say whether Donald Trump’s diplomacy on the Korean peninsula entitles him to join Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama among our recent Nobel Peace Prize laureates. But Condoleezza Rice is surely correct to suggest that the Trump administration—including ex-secretary of state Rex Tillerson—deserves credit for the series of events currently playing out on that Cold War battlefront.

Since a 1953 armistice stopped the shooting in the Korean War, the two Koreas have been utterly (and very separately) transformed, but the diplomatic status quo has reigned supreme. If President Trump somehow manages to break that deadlock, perhaps Rigoberta Menchú, or the estate of the late Yasser Arafat, will donate their Nobel medallions to the White House. Still, while results have thus far been encouraging, it is quite possible that, as with most peace prize-worthy achievements, there is less here than meets the eye.