U.S. Must Negotiate with North Korea to Defuse N-Crisis

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WASHINGTON -- In late 2004, I stood at the edge of the Sahara Desert and marveled at a scene that would have been impossible to imagine a short time before. Near the ancient trading post of Al Kufrah, where Libya's asphalt roads surrender to sand, a convoy of 350 trucks headed off into the desert on its way to refugee camps in Chad. These Libyan trucks were piled high with bags that carried the stamp "U.S.A." and contained two months of American-grown food for 200,000 refugees from Darfur.

In three decades as a U.S. congressman, ambassador and now as a humanitarian activist, I have traveled to more than 100 countries, many of them places of hunger, poverty, warfare or oppression. I have met some of the world's worst despots and witnessed the horror they can create.

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U.S. Must Negotiate with North Korea to Defuse N-Crisis

I also have, as in Libya, witnessed good deeds done by those who are best known for wickedness. I have learned from these experiences that we should persist in our efforts to help the poor and libe...

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