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After the war, he returned home to serve as an ambassador and later became a UN delegate to help mediate between Pakistan and India in Kashmir. But as communism took hold of his home country, Korbel again feared for his family's safety. He successfully applied for political asylum for him, his wife, and their three children in the US - where he received a grant to teach politics in Denver, Colorado.