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North Korea Follows Iran’s Lead in the Nuclear-Blackmail Game

Posted January 7th, 2016 at 12:56 pm (UTC-4)
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This might sound crazy, but it’s not. North Korea spent nearly two decades conning other countries into providing free stuff and strengthening its strategic hand in exchange for restraining its nuclear ambitions. To show just how audacious its efforts were, the first country it conned was the Soviet Union, its fellow Stalinist anti-paradise.