Defying State Dept, Richardson and Google Chief to Visit North Korea
'We're Not Representing the State Department,' Richardson Notes
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Google chief Eric Schmidt are rejecting US State Department warnings not to go to North Korea on a visit later this month, with Richardson terming the warnings misplaced and meaningless.
“I don’t work for the US government, neither does Eric Schmidt,” noted Richardson, who added that “we’re not representing the State Department, so they shouldn’t be that nervous.”
State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland warned that the timing of the visit was “unhelpful” and said that the department had repeatedly made them “well aware of our views” on their planned visit.
Richardson has been visiting North Korea off and on for about 15 years and negotiated the release of numerous US hostages. He says Schmidt is a personal friend and is accompanying him out of pure curiosity.
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Yonatan
January 5th, 2013 at 6:29 am
I-F's gotta maintain The Axis of Evil scam until Iran is destroyed.
goldhoarder
January 5th, 2013 at 9:24 am
Hmmmm… interesting. A couple of our elite are apparently stepping outside of the box. I wonder how this happened.
Jaime
January 5th, 2013 at 2:52 pm
There are still intelligent and brave people in the US.
Jaime
January 6th, 2013 at 7:36 am
It's good to know that there are still brave and intelligent Americans who refuse to drink the Kool-aid and/or their soma pills. Nuland warns that the timing of the visit is “unhelpful”. I wonder when it can be "helpful". This sounds more and more as undue interference in the private affairs of people. Will they be branded "traitors" when they return to the "land of the free?" What the US doesn't want is for people, especially their own people, to realize that the "axis of evil" is not such. In fact what the US government is to prevent people from realizing that the US is the Chairman of the real Axis of Evil.