Trump, you’ll recall, had already declared that North Korea was “no longer a nuclear threat” after he met with the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un in Singapore last June.

He had humble-bragged that “everybody thinks” he should win a Nobel Peace Prize over his dazzling diplomatic achievement. And, in words reminiscent of the infamous “peace for our time,” speech by Neville Chamberlain (“Now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds”), Trump told us “Sleep well tonight” after his lovefest with Kim.

But the troubles that came after the Singapore summit were not just predictable, they were widely predicted.

Two months after declaring victory, it’s clear that Kim is not interested in dismantling his nuclear program, no matter what he promised Trump. Earlier this week, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it finds no sign that North Korea has stopped its nuclear activities. And yesterday, an expert group said the North has stopped dismantling its missile testing site, breaking another promise. The North’s missile program aims to find a way to launch a nuclear weapon at a target far away, such as the United States.

To be sure, it is a positive development that Trump has walked away from his own threats to launch a nuclear war, and it is heartwarming to see the family reunions between small numbers of elderly South Koreans and their relatives in the North after decades of unforgivable separation.

Still, the stated objective of Trump’s policy is to bring about the denuclearization of North Korea, and at this moment there is absolutely no sign that that it will happen, no matter how much Trump has slathered praise on the country’s young tyrant.

The summit alone gave North Korea and its dictator a prize that had eluded his dynastic predecessors. Three generations of ruling Kims wanted the recognition of a face-to-face meeting with the American President. What should have been the reward for a successful negotiating process, instead came at the start. Another mind-boggling concession was the cancellation of US military exercises with the South.

As Trump admitted, his trade war with China, North Korea’s only ally, has complicated negotiations. But that should hardly come as a surprise.

In fact, Trump has broken with the advice of experts, and the result has been as predicted.

Trump may claim his presidency is a raging, unprecedented success on all fronts. But so far, his North Korea policy can charitably be graded an Incomplete, if that.