How to Manage North Korea https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/and-now-the-hard-part/how-to-manage-north-korea/ C This connected to my past experience in that my whole life really I have heard about the threat of North Korea. One of the constants in my life is the danger hanging over my head, over all of our heads. I look back to the cold war, I look back to a lot of history, and an interesting thing is that we learn to live with our lives threatened, hanging on the whims of a single man. And we learn to live with it. There are many things that we learn to live with, and a far-off danger of world domination. It was also connected in my mind to Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement attempts. The podcast talked about the fact that Trump's communication with N. Korea isn't producing any tangible effects, other than the taking down of anti-American posters which are still "in a storage closet". So with Neville Chamberlain, we saw...
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