South Korea and the United States are coordinating the details of a summit between President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump after their planned meeting at the recent Group of Seven (G7) summit was canceled,

South Korea’s new President Lee is signaling openness to diplomacy with North Korea, and with Trump’s return, renewed inter-Korean dialogue may be possible, but concrete progress remains uncertain.

But that progress was thrown into question last December when Yoon Suk Yeol, then South Korea’s president, briefly imposed martial law. Although he was ultimately impeached, the episode raised troubling questions about the health of the country’s democracy,