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Parallels between Cuban Missile Crisis and North Korea

Some people have seen parallels between the current crisis over North Korea's nuclear capability and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Michael Dobbs is the author of One Minute to Midnight, a book about that time. Does he think they are similar?

(Photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (left) US President Donald Trump (right). Credit: Getty)

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