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John McCain others didn’t Angelina Jolie NEWS ANALYSIS WASHINGTON OPINION Meeting with leader Around the world, there is profound concern that America is giving up the of North Korea hinges on mantle of global leadership. Our steady force of his personality retreat over the past decade has con- tributed to a wide array of complex BY PETER BAKER global challenges — a dangerous ero- sion of the rule of law, gross human When the establishment told him he rights violations and the decline of the should talk with North Korea, President rules-based international order that Trump scorned the idea. “Presidents was designed in the aftermath of two and their administrations have been world wars to prevent conflict and talking to North Korea for 25 years” and deter mass atrocities. had been made to look like “fools,” he We’ve seen this unfold in Syria, scoffed, and then rattled his saber. where the United States and the inter- “Sorry, but only one thing will work!” national community Five months later, Mr. Trump cast A campaign have shamefully aside his skepticism and agreed to talk of atrocities failed to address to North Korea with no more promise of brutal violence that success at negotiating an end to its nu- has sent has engulfed the clear and missile programs than his 680,000 country for seven predecessors had. The main difference people fleeing years, led to hun- this time around is who will do the talk- slaughter, dreds of thousands ing for the United States: Donald J. rape and dead and contributed Trump. razed to the worst refugee Shocking and yet somehow not sur- villages. crisis since the end prising, Mr. Trump’s decision on Thurs- of World War II. day to do what no other sitting president And sadly, we are PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILLIAM WIDMER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES has done and meet in person with a seeing now this Jean Lafitte, La., after Tropical Storm Cindy last year. Rising sea levels and land loss are driving back Louisiana’s coastline, and a fourth of the state’s wetlands are already gone. North Korean leader reflects an auda- same lack of effective diplomacy in cious and supremely self-confident ap- Myanmar, formerly Burma, where proach to international affairs. Whether since last summer 680,000 Rohingya it is Middle East peace or trade agree- Muslims have been forced to flee a ments, Mr. Trump has repeatedly systematic military campaign of claimed that he can achieve what has killings, arson, rape and other mass eluded every other occupant of his office atrocities amounting to ethnic cleans- Fighting the tides through the force of his own personality. ing. So far, he has little to show for that. He Attacks against the Rohingya, who JEAN LAFITTE, LA. sidence, sea-level rise and erosion, has has yet to successfully negotiate any are denied citizenship under Burmese killed off the live oaks and bald cypress. new trade deals or renegotiate any old law, are not new. They have faced Stands of roseau cane and native ones. A resolution between Israel and decades of repression, discrimination, grasses have been reduced to brown the Palestinians, which he once said harassment and violence. In recent Louisiana community pulp by feral hogs, orange-fanged nutria would be “maybe not as difficult as peo- months, thousands of Rohingya have and a voracious aphid-like invader from ple have thought,” looks more distant been slaughtered, countless women isn’t accepting inevitability Asia. than when he came into office. Beyond and girls have been gang-raped, civil- of its surrender to the sea A relentless succession of hurricanes threatening “fire and fury,” he has of- ians have been burned alive, and vil- and tropical storms — three last season fered no original formula that suggests a lages have been razed. Human Rights BY KEVIN SACK alone — has accelerated the decay. In all, path to unlock the North Korea puzzle. Watch has documented dozens of AND JOHN SCHWARTZ more than 2,000 square miles have dis- But in his penchant for unpredictabili- horrific cases, including that of a 15- appeared since 1932. ty, his willingness to shift at a moment’s year-old girl who reported being tied to From a Cessna flying 4,000 feet above Out toward the horizon, a fishing vil- notice and his sense that only he can a tree and raped repeatedly by a group Louisiana’s coast, what strikes you first lage appears on a fingerling of land, ten- make the important decisions, Mr. of armed men. Other survivors de- is how much is already lost. Northward uously gripping the banks of a bending Trump may find a kindred spirit in the scribed children and the elderly locked from the Gulf, slivers of barrier island bayou. It sits defenseless, all but sur- man who would sit across the table, Kim in their homes and burned alive. give way to the open water of Barataria rounded by encroaching basins of water. Jong-un of North Korea. “In some ways For more than three decades, Amer- Bay as it billows toward an inevitable Just two miles north is the jagged tip of a there’s a symmetry,” said Wendy R. ica stood with our allies to support merger with Little Lake, its name now a fortresslike levee, a primary line of de- Sherman, a longtime former diplomat MCCAIN, PAGE 12 lie. Ever-widening bayous course fense for greater New Orleans, whose who was part of a historic American del- through what were once dense wet- skyline looms in the distance. Every- egation to Pyongyang under President The New York Times publishes opinion lands, and a cross-stitch of oil field ca- thing south of that 14-foot wall, including Bill Clinton and later negotiated the Iran from a wide range of perspectives in nals stamps the marsh like Chinese the gritty little town of Jean Lafitte, has nuclear agreement for President hopes of promoting constructive debate characters. effectively been left to the tides. Barack Obama. “You have two leaders about consequential questions. Saltwater intrusion, the result of sub- LOUISIANA, PAGE 4 Cleaning crabs in Lafitte. The villagers there have lived off the water for generations. TALKS, PAGE 6

A muse steps out of the shadows

LONDON tional British art of the postwar period. Mr. Freud, who died in 2011, has 17 paint- ings in the show, more than any other artist. Ms. Paul has two, but she is also Celia Paul, the partner the subject of one of the Freud paint- ings: “Girl in a Striped Nightshirt” of Lucian Freud, now (1983-85), a small and tender portrait. paints her own portraits After four decades spent in the shad- ows — as Mr. Freud’s partner, as a fe- BY FARAH NAYERI male artist and as a figurative painter when the genre was pronounced dead — Artists’ studios are not often found in Ms. Paul, now 58, is drawing attention picturesque environments. They usu- for her soulful and melancholy portraits. ally look out on dreary backyards, fac- Opening on April 3 at the Yale Center for tory warehouses or parking lots. But the British Art in Connecticut is a Celia Paul British painter Celia Paul has an atelier show curated by the New Yorker writer overlooking the columned facade of the Hilton Als. He has championed her be- British Museum. fore, in a display of her work at Gallery Ms. Paul’s small, top-floor apartment Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s art space in London was bought for her in 1982 by in New York, in 2015. Lucian Freud, her partner at the time. In a recent interview at her home stu- They met at the Slade School of Fine Art dio, Ms. Paul spoke softly but openly when she was an 18-year-old student about her life and art, exuding a combi- and he a 55-year-old visiting tutor. nation of fragility and quiet strength. Both artists have work in a new exhib- The conversation took place in her un- TOM JAMIESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ition at Tate Britain called “All Too Hu- adorned bedroom, with a metal-framed Celia Paul this month at her studio near the British Museum in London, as her work man: Bacon, Freud and a Century of bed at one end and a paint-stained gets new attention. “I’m not a portrait painter: I’m an autobiographer,” she said. Painting Life,” a survey of representa- MUSE, PAGE 20 CALIBER RM 63-01 DIZZY HANDS NEWSSTAND PRICES Issue Number Great Britain £ 2.20 Kazakhstan US$ 3.50 Oman OMR 1.40 Serbia Din 280 Tunisia Din 5.200 No. 41,986 Greece € 2.80 Latvia € 3.90 Poland Zl 15 Slovakia € 3.50 Turkey TL 11 Andorra € 3.70 Cameroon CFA 2700 Egypt EGP 28.00 Hungary HUF 950 Lebanon LBP 5,000 Portugal € 3.50 Slovenia € 3.40 U.A.E. AED 14.00 Antilles € 4.00 Canada CAN$ 5.50 Estonia € 3.50 Israel NIS 13.50 Luxembourg € 3.50 Qatar QR 12.00 Spain € 3.50 United States $ 4.00

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