Satellite view of North Korea and South Korea:
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/dprk-dark.htm
Posted on 06/09/2009 9:24:35 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Gore held back from going to NKorea to negotiate release of two US reporters
Posted: 09 June 2009 1044 hrs
WASHINGTON : Former US vice president Al Gore was "held back" from travelling to North Korea to negotiate for the release of his two employees - journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
That is according to Selig Harrison from the Centre for International Policy, who said Gore sought diplomatic backing from the Obama administration in a private meeting on May 11.
Ling and Lee have just been sentenced to 12 years in North Korean labour camp.
Neither Al Gore nor the company he founded, Current TV, have made any public comments, since the two journalists were captured whilst on a reporting assignment in March.
(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...
Has there ever been a more “manufactured” crisis with an even more manufactured resolution simply to give a despot dictator what he wants (not what is countrymen need, but what he wants.)
Or if he stays.....permanently
Satellite view of North Korea and South Korea:
Source:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/dprk-dark.htm
It was a Risky Scheme at best.
Coward Gore never intended to go...
I would be willing to pay for (one way) of his trip out of my pocket. LOL
“You the brains behind this operation?”
“Ya know, this really isn’t a brains kind of operation.”
I like the way you think!
I'll say this for him, at least he followed proper procedure, protocol, and went to the White House FIRST, unlike Carter, Richardson, Jesse Jackson in recent years who have gone willy-nilly to deal without prior Administration sanction/approval. When one is no longer in office (or Jackson, never held public office), he does not possess any authority whatever -- having former presidents, MOC's, ambassadors, etal, who are no more than the average citizen by virtue of their no longer holding office, doing these things without the approval of the people who are charged with the Foreign Policy mandate confuses things in the end.
(I can't believe I had something good to say about Gore, but you know, that thing about broken clocks and all).
I suspect that you are correct.
Weren’t those reporters working for Gore or a company owned by him?
If he wants to impress me, he should offer himself as a trade for those journalists!
No, let him go!
I suspect al called Hillary and asked to go and made it clear he didn’t want permission so the govt is his excuse.
He is a big bag of hot air.
He is a big bag of hot air.
I suspect that HE alone is the REAL cause of globull warming!
How worried is MOS (newstalk for “Man On Street”) in Japan about DPRK?
I really don't doubt that he's crazy enough to go to North Korea and challenge those pukes directly.
On the other hand those pukes in Korea simply don't care. They are all mind-numbed robot-like knee-jerk Commie idiots.
These are not the first people the NK Regime has kidnapped ~ it's a regular business practice with them.
Eventually someone will get across to the Algore that the Leftwingtards in this world are NOT HIS FRIENDS.
So on top of everything else, Gore is a graduate of Jimmy Carter U. Both think their negotiating skills are second to none. Both couldn’t be more wrong.
Actually, I suspect Al is more competent than the clowns currently in charge. (Which tells you something about the state of the union.)
Okay, then I am willing to pay for his trip, one way........ and halfway back. ;>)
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