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Editor’s Note: A former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Poland and Macedonia, Christopher R. Hill also served as the country’s envoy to South Korea in 2004-2005. As Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, he was lead U.S. negotiator at the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue in 2005. In 2010…