Bill Richardson goes to see Dear Leader
Only Bill Richardson can go to North Korea.
U.S. presidential candidate Bill Richardson arrived Sunday in North Korea for a rare visit to the isolated country by a prominent American official.
The trip, which has been endorsed by the Bush Administration, comes days before a crucial deadline in a recent nuclear disarmament accord.
Richardson, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, said he had no intention of negotiating nuclear matters. The delegation he brings aims to recover the remains of U.S. servicemen killed during the Korean War.
Still, he told The Associated Press on the flight to Pyongyang that the timing of the visit is important and will show North Korea the United States’ good intentions, ahead of next Saturday’s deadline for North Korea to shut down its main nuclear reactor.
The North Koreans, he said, will understand the symbolism of a delegation that includes Anthony Principi, the former veteran affairs secretary for President Bush, and Victor Cha, a top adviser on North Korea.
“It could be the signal of an improved relationship,” he said of the discussions to secure U.S. remains. “The North Koreans always consider protocol very important. They like to be considered a major power in the region.”
A bit curious to see how this is being played in North Korea’s state run propaganda mill, I can’t quite find anything about Richardson, but I do see such items as:
A carrot approach being taken by the imperialists serves as a lever to carry out their appeasement strategy. This is a very crafty and wicked plot to create illusion about them by appeasing and deceiving their opponents in a bid to benumb their anti-imperialist spirit and completely disarm them ideologically and morally.
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It is clear to everybody who will benefit from the final agreement reached between the U.S. and the south Korean authorities and who will suffer from it. The world knows no such brigandish and shameless aggressors as the U.S. imperialists who imposed upon the south Koreans the heavy burden of covering the funds for the upkeep of their forces in south Korea and the transfer of their base for a war of aggression, while perpetrating all sorts of moves for aggression and plunder in south Korea for more than 60 years.
   The U.S. imperialists had better quit south Korea at once, instead of transferring the base of the aggressor forces and relocating it.
We await to see more, I suppose.