March 29, 2024
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Washington’s N. Korea sanctions bet has full support, for now

Whatever their goal, sanctions are seen as the only way to go in the Washington of summer 2016

I am writing this from an air-conditioned office in downtown Washington, D.C., as the city outside nearly melts under the humid July heat wave. Perhaps, it is the tie and suit-clad bureaucrats who suffer most in such conditions, but, no matter what, the capital of the mighty American Empire continues its normal operations.

I write having spent a week in Washington, talking to people about North Korea (what else can yours truly talk about?), and in this article I will probably summarize my observations about what denizens of Washington’s offices now tend to think about that peculiar country, located at a peninsula in distant Asia.

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