There are two popular Japanese proverbs that conflict with each other: "The third time is real (lucky)" and "What happens twice will happen three times (When it rains it pours)." The former represents optimistic idealists while the latter pessimistic realists. Which one will be the case for the Korean Peninsula?
The optimistic camp claims the following:
This time is real and North Korea has to make substantive concessions.
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