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DPRK
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US
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we have
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a chance
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to achieve
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a truly wonderful
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progressive
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result for
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north korea and
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the world
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yet it must be
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tempered
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because
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by acknowledging
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the other side
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we validate it
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has
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after all
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its own
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will
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underwhelming
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in the
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massive
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spotlight
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tool
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we shine
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upon
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collapse
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which
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makes this
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transparently
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a gamble
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with a
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knowledge
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nobel
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developed his
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peace prize on
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explosives
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the table
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we have set
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there
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deliberately
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weighs
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a timer
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a button to push
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how else
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shall we hope
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to burn
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our place
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in a history that
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survives
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admits that
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if none can
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better
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play the
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part
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charming men
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of valour
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whose handshakes
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must be worth
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so much
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more than the
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obscure
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paper
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truth
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of signatures
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—from Poets Respond
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Hsien Min Toh: “I am a Singaporean, and as you can imagine the coverage of the Trump-Kim summit here in Singapore has been at saturation levels. I’ve thus written a response to it in twin cinema, a poetic form originating in Singapore that presents a poem in two (or more) columns such that it is possible to read each column vertically as independent poems or to read horizontally across the columns (see this blog post for more details). In this way the form enables a discourse between two conflicting points of view that come together to form a third, ambiguous position. Which seems to me to be what the summit was all about.” (web)
