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Madeleine Albright: 'All of a Sudden, Diplomacy Is Being Degraded'

America’s former chief diplomat on the state of the State Department
Source: Reuters

Madeleine Albright—who as secretary of state in the Clinton administration presided over one of the last diplomatic breakthroughs with North Korea, visiting Pyongyang to Kim Jong Il—argued on Thursday that the organization she used to lead is being hollowed out just when the United States

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