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James Fretwell
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Madeleine Albright, the first U.S. Secretary of State who met former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as part of a fleeting high-level bilateral engagement that promised to take relations down a different path, died on Wednesday at the age of 84.
The first-ever woman to serve as Washington’s top diplomat, Albright was also the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the DPRK until former President Donald Trump took a few steps across the inter-Korean border in June 2019.