Then there is the discouraging profile of Special Envoy Christopher Hill, the driving force behind U.S. capitulations to the North Koreans.

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As painful as capitulations are, their redeeming value is the promise they supposedly hold out that a rebound will make everything all right.

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For all that Mr Cameron insisted this week that changing course was a sign of strength not weakness, his capitulations are piling up.

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