How Kim Jong Un is 'playing' President Trump
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Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un continue to make strange bedfellows despite ongoing disagreement about nuclear weaponry. Can the relationship between the mogul US President and the enigmatic leader of North Korea promise anything other than a good photo opportunity? Anna Fifield, Asia correspondent for the Washington Post and author of The Great Successor: the secret rise and rule of Kim Jong Un Anna will appear at Antidote 2019 at the Sydney Opera House on 31 August and 1 September. Also It is widely believed that almost every nation in the world will become a liberal democracy. But a dwindling number of countries with free political systems says the opposite.   Is democracy promotion the answer? Lavina Lee, senior lecturer in international relations at Macquarie University in Sydney and author of Democracy Promotion: ANZUS and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy
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