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November 20, 2012

Obama's Message to North Korea: Let's Make Up

Max Fisher, Washington Post

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On Monday, President Obama visited a medium-sized Asian country known for its international isolation, brutal military dictatorship and flirtations with nuclear weapons. If that sounds familiar, you are not alone in seeing some parallels between the reforming autocracy of Burma, which Obama became the first-ever sitting U.S. president to visit, and North Korea.

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