International Affairs: The V.F. Archive Collection

Some of the best work of our globe-trotting reporters and photographers, including Christopher Hitchens’s visit to North Korea, T.D. Allman’s trip with Yasser Arafat, and more.

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Visit to a Small Planet
Vanity Fair - By Christopher Hitchens
North Koreans worship their dead dictator, Kim Il Sung, and his son the reigning Kim Jong Il, despite the surreal nightmare of famine, isolation, repression, and nuclear peril the dynasty has spawned. In Pyongyang, the author wonders whether mass delusion is the only thing that keeps a people …
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9/11: The Tapping Point
Vanity Fair - By David Rose
What if, two years before the 9/11 attacks—with the installation of a cell-phone-and-Internet system in Afghanistan—the U.S. had been handed complete access to al-Qaeda and Taliban calls and e-mails? A secret deal was in place in 1999, the author reveals, but Washington dropped the ball. One morning …
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Adventures in the Ransom Trade
Vanity Fair - By William Prochnau
The huge number of multinational businessmen being abducted abroad (hundreds a year at ransoms reaching $30 million) has made organized kidnapping a big business. It has also spawned a counterindustry—getting them back—and a secret drama involving former spies and revolutionaries, AK-47s and …
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Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House
Vanity Fair - By Michael Lewis
Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the White House really understand …
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The Vietnam Syndrome
Vanity Fair - By Christopher Hitchens
Agent Orange, used by the U.S. to defoliate Vietnam’s jungles, has now poisoned a third generation. From Ho Chi Minh City to the town of Ben Tre, photographer James Nachtwey and the author confront that ecocide’s most shocking legacy—horrifyingly deformed children—even as new lawsuits could bring …
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A Flowering Evil
Vanity Fair - By Mark Seal
The shooting of environmentalist Joan Root at her 88-acre farm overlooking Lake Naivasha, last January, shocked Kenya’s “Happy Valley” and the entire conservation world. Blonde, beautiful, and fearless, she had been idolized for the pioneering wildlife films she made with her husband, Alan. After …
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On The Road With Arafat
Vanity Fair - By T. D. Allman
When Yasser Arafat gave T.D. Allman ten minutes to scramble aboard his private jet, he refused to say where they were going. Forty hours and four countries later, it was clear to Allman that the real journey had been through the secret workings of Arafat’s world. “Now!” said the voice. “Hurry! Bring …

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