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How Long Can John Bolton Take This?

The national security adviser was conspicuously absent from North Korea during the historic concession to Kim Jong Un.
Source: Ian Langsdon / Reuters

This weekend, at the invitation of Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump stepped briefly across the demilitarized zone into North Korean territory, becoming the first sitting United States president to do so. That’s one short waddle for a U.S. president, one giant leap for a supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Previous presidents had refused to even contemplate such a gesture, which the North Koreans and the rest of the world will read as acknowledgment that its regime acted

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