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"Thirty-two​ years ago, in one of the last and least remembered crises of the 20th century, the United States came to the brink of war over the spread of nuclear weapons. Less than a year and a half into his first term, Bill Clinton was shown evidence that North Korea had removed fuel rods from a plutonium reactor, the first step towards creating the raw material for nuclear warheads. Over..."

"For the Kims, nuclear weapons have never been an end in themselves; they are an insurance policy against attack by their powerful and proximate enemies. Until about seven years ago, North Korea repeatedly showed its willingness to trade its nuclear arsenal for convincing US security guarantees. Washington’s refusal to recognise and engage with this is a collective failure of its last four presidents."

"In​ 1990, Noël Annan, then in his early seventies, published Our Age, a study – part memoir, part history – of those members of his generation who, as he put it, ‘make their times significant and form opinion’. His contingent wasn’t an ‘intelligentsia’ in some imagined enragé French sense; its members, almost all of them men produced by..."

"Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down new paths, challenge their elders’ work or leave them behind. Those elders might read that as the decline of ‘standards’ but it really isn’t; it’s just the decline of their own preoccupations and authority."

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Keeping up with the Kims

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