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Madeleine Albright: “I do think that we do have to see this as a provocation, but not overreact.”

On the recordJuly 3, 2006
I do think that we do have to see this as a provocation, but not overreact.
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Madeleine Albright

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Albright emphasizes the need for a measured response to North Korea's missile tests.

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