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John Bolton’s impact on North Korea policy: nasty, brutish, and short

The former national security advisor's memoir reveals just how damaging his influence really was.

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“It may be a bit much,” former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton writes, “to say that Hobbes’s description of human existence as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short accurately described life in the White House, but by the end of their tenures, many key advisors would have leaned toward it.”

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