Behind North Korea’s Tough Talk, A Global ‘Extortion Racket’

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The increasingly bellicose threats streaming out of North Korea are not especially new to former US diplomat Jeffrey Bader. Bader, who served as a special assistant to President Obama, and as a senior director for East Asian affairs on the National Security Council until 2011 has heard similar vitriol before.

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