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An Afghan family watches helicopters fly off as a looming shadow appears in the foreground.

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Afghan Interpreters Who Await Visas After Helping The U.S. Now Fear For Their Lives

7:01am June 19, 2021

"Every day, you can see an increase in the Taliban's presence," an Afghan who worked with the U.S. tells NPR. "What am I going to do after September? ... Am I going to even be alive by December?"

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met in Pyongyang on Oct. 23, 2000. Tong Kim (between Albright and Kim) served as the State Department interpreter.

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The Pressures Of Being An Interpreter At A High-Stakes Summit

11:39am June 11, 2018

by Danny Hajek

President Trump doesn't speak Korean and little is known about Kim Jong Un's English skills. The best interpreters serve as both linguists and diplomats. They understand the politics behind the words.

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Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon walk around the grounds of Brezhnev's country home by the Black Sea in Yalta, Russia, in June 1974. Nixon had some meetings with Brezhnev without a U.S. interpreter, a practice

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Trump's Recently Disclosed Putin Conversation Is 'Nixon All Over Again'

2:46pm July 21, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Two interpreters who served a number of U.S. presidents say a secrecy-obsessed Richard Nixon was the only recent president to routinely dispense with interpreters.