Around this time two years ago, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pivoted to diplomacy after six years of blustery threats and self-imposed isolation, and metamorphosed into an international statesman, with the help of President Donald Trump. Yet two years and three Trump-Kim meetings later, we are still at the pre-summitry status quo, with Kim this month reaffirming North Korea’s position as a nuclear weapons power. The past 19 months of summits have not moved North Korea closer to denuclearization, rather, they have enabled North Korea to make their weapons more diverse, more mobile, more accurate, and more dangerous. The two sides appear to be keeping the option of additional diplomacy to occur, but the personalization of diplomacy between Kim and Trump has lessened US leverage necessary to convince Kim to abandon his nuclear weapons and has put the region in a more precarious situation in 2020.