Madeleine Albright, who came to the United States as a child refugee and rose to be the first female secretary of state, shaping American foreign policy at the end of the 20th century, has died at the age of 84.
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President Joe Biden said Albright had ”turned the tide of history,” adding that she ”defied convention and broke barriers again and again.” Her father, Josef Korbel, a diplomat, had converted from Judaism to Catholicism after the family fled to London in 1939 to escape the Nazis. She later joined the National Security Council in the White House of president Jimmy Carter, serving under his national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, her former professor at Columbia.
One of her final voyages in the post was an official visit to North Korea, where she met with then-leader Kim Jong-Il.
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