When Mr Barack Obama handed Mr Donald Trump the keys to the White House in January 2017, he warned his successor that his biggest foreign policy challenge would be North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes.
Now, four years later, North Korea has more nuclear weapons and missiles than ever, but no one thinks it will be the new president's biggest international problem.
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