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Discussion about former President Clinton's negotiations with North Korea to pardon two U.S. journalists with Glenn Kessler of "The Washington Post" and Joseph Cirincione, President of the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation
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writersblock25 12/21/2010 07:55 PM Report
Well, I guess Kim Jong-il finally got what he wanted- a formal visit by a former United States President. But I really question, however, whether we (the Americans) got anything that we wanted.
REMant 08/06/2009 09:36 PM Report
I didn't think anything at all like Ciccione about the North Korea incident. The journalists, who worked for Al Gore, incidentally, trespassed. That they were detained, even tried and sentenced, was nothing more than you could expect from the North Korean's past behavior and the long-standing tension on that border. I don't then think it was intended as anything out of the ordinary. And the price was to be expected, as they would have considered it a loss of face otherwise. Fortunately Clinton was willing to be humiliated, but, of course, he has no shame, the perfect candidate to send. I would expect anything much to come out of this, except perhaps the fulfillment of prior promises to the North Koreans. In fact as I listen to these Post guys I'd think this is exactly the kind of thinking which is entirely unhelpful and I'd be glad to stop hearing. You could, btw, have expected the same kind of thing out of the American Indians, and with some justification, too, because just look what happened to them, when they tried to be cooperative.