Henri Dunant, who shared the inaugural Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frédéric Passy, spent decades in near-total obscurity before the award — living in a small Swiss almshouse, largely forgotten after his bankruptcy and expulsion from the Red Cross he had founded. North Korea's decision to commemorate him is worth pausing on: a state with one of the worst humanitarian records on earth issuing a coin honoring the man who established the modern framework for wartime civilian protection.
Henri Dunant, who shared the inaugural Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frédéric Passy, spent decades in near-total obscurity before the award — living in a small Swiss almshouse, largely forgotten after his bankruptcy and expulsion from the Red Cross he had founded. North Korea's decision to commemorate him is worth pausing on: a state with one of the worst humanitarian records on earth issuing a coin honoring the man who established the modern framework for wartime civilian protection.