Rare Sign of US-North Korea ‘Friendship’ at State Department

In several gift stores in the bowels of the U.S. State Department, diplomats, civil servants and authorized visitors can purchase clothing, key chains, coffee cups and knickknacks emblazoned with the department’s eagle logo. Also on offer by the concessionaire of the Foreign Affairs Recreation Association are friendship pins on which the Stars and Stripes is twinned with the flags of friendly nations — and one very unfriendly one: the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, with which the...

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