North Korean ambassador asks to visit Richardson

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[CougarGA7]

North Korean ambassador asks to visit Richardson

North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations has requested permission to visit with Governor Bill Richardson in New Mexico.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer confirmed Thursday that the request had been made to Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, by the North Korean ambassador, Han Song Ryol, based in New York City.

Knowing that such a visit by an ambassador would require State Department approval, Richardson contacted Secretary of State Colin Powell about the matter.

Fleischer said Powell had no objections to the ambassador's request to visit New Mexico. When such a visit would take place was not released.

The governor's office had no comment when contacted by Eyewitness News 4 on Thursday. A spokesperson for Richardson said the governor was in meetings and discussions about the matter.

Fleischer says it isn't known what North Korea wants to say to Richardson. But he says the Bush administration expects Richardson to stick to Bush's line on the Korean nuclear crisis.

Richardson has a long history with North Korea, negotiating with the country on several occasions as a congressman.

He negotiated the release of a U.S. helicopter pilot downed in 1989 during a visit to confer nuclear disarmament. He later negotiated again with North Korea for the release of a pilot shot down in December 1994.

In 1996, Richardson successfully negotiated the release of a U.S. missionary accused by the North Koreans of spying.

Richardson was named the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations 1997.

[CougarGA7]

Your a governor now you idoit! At least try to pretend that you give a sh!# about New Mexicans.

[dirtboy]

North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations has requested permission to visit with Governor Bill Richardson in New Mexico.

The North Koreans long for the good ol' days of appeasement foreign policy...

[r9etb]

What a strange request. Sounds to me like they're trying to use him as a go-between (or at least, somebody they can point to and say "he said...").

[CougarGA7]

The thing that the NKs are delusional about is that they must think that William has some sort of power over national policy.

That's why Powell approved the meeting. It's one of those "Go ahead and talk to him, he's insignificant."

[blackdog]

In real terms, this meeting will be to remind Richardson that good money was paid to the Crinton Administration to look the other way. They had to hear Roger Crinton and his stupid music for weeks.

Please God, have the State Department make Richardson wear a wire! Richardson seems to be the go to guy when political leaders step in $hit. Where did I hear that before?????Hmmmmmm????

[CougarGA7]

Maybe the Koreans want their money back.

How's that for wishful thinking.

[underthesun]

Fleischer says it isn't known what North Korea wants to say to Richardson. But he says the Bush administration expects Richardson to stick to Bush's line on the Korean nuclear crisis.

The day Richardson sticks to anything they will be ice skating in hell. Of course with the amount of double talk he usually does how can you really tell who's side he's on. Certainly not New Mexico's.

[Tacis]

This is proof that Kim Il-Sung has a girl that he has been boinking and now wants to get rid of. Like most filthy and corrupt heads-of-state, he turns to Richardson to find her a job away from him.

[CougarGA7]

You know what that means?

It means there will be a girl named Sum Yung Ho working at the Round House.

[CougarGA7]

Richardson is just proving that he thinks this job is a stepping stone to the White House.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

a) The NK's just blinked
b)Pyongyang is out of dope.

[gundog]

He probably just wants a little tour of Alamogordo.

[hattend]

Fleischer says it isn't known what North Korea wants to say to Richardson

They have to get their stories straight. What Clinton said, when...what he promised, what he provided in exchange for cash.

[ExpandNATO]

Why would you want Richardson to wear a wire? That way he knows he is bugged. What you want is a recording of the conversation when neither party knows they are being listened to.

[CougarGA7]

That, or Los Alamos. It would be easier to give them hard drives in person.

[MrConfettiMan]

Hmmm, the same Bill Richardson who headed the Department of Energy during the Clinton Administration...

[CougarGA7]

And was our Ambassidor to the UN and tried to help Billy by offering Monica Lewenski a job.

[Feckless]

Bill must have held out on some of the ICBM technology they paid for..........probably looking to make some more money.

[mr.pink]

...tried to help Billy by offering Monica Lewenski a job.

And like a true "professional" in the Clinton sense of the word, he "interviewed" her in a hotel room, and of course alone.

Mrs. Richardson must have appreciated that manuever.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Well, he didn't when he was a Congresscritter, nor when he was ClinEnSec.