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Anne Applebaum: It’s not like before on the Korean Peninsula

It was mocked when it first appeared a few days ago. But now the White House commemorative coin — the one struck to mark the great peace summit between President Donald Trump and “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong Un — will go down in history. Like the famous “Inverted Jenny” — a 1918 stamp with the image of an airplane printed upside down — the coin has already become a collectible. It pompously marks an event that isn’t going to happen, and its price will rise sharply as a result.

The other results of the canceled summit are less amusing.