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He said he was hecker.

So many millions of dollars.

It's got to be North Korea.

How in the world did this happen?

The Lazarus Heist.

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Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Sacker.

My guest today is the very archetype of the urbane diplomat,

having served as UK ambassador to Ankara, Paris and Washington

in the course of a career spanning four decades.

Sir Peter Westmacott left his last posting in the US as the Obama presidency ended.

And since then, the degree of uncertainty in geopolitics has, if anything, deepened.

The Trump presidency saw US foreign policy defined by a nationalist protectionist

sentiment which deepened hostility with Beijing and raised profound questions about the future

of multilateral diplomacy and long-standing alliances. At the same time, Britain divorced itself from the European Union and pledged

to recalibrate its foreign policy to reflect the shift of power and influence eastward to China and

Asia. In short, the beliefs and assumptions that sustained a generation of British diplomats were

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