Posted on 03/05/2005 8:48:10 PM PST by HAL9000
U.S. Ambassador and MDP Head to Meet over Hillary's Visit to Pyongyang
SEOUL, March 6 (Yonhap) -- The head of South Korea's minor opposition Millennium Democratic Party plans to meet U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Christopher Hill this week over a possible visit to North Korea by a group of U.S. senators, including Hillary Clinton, party officials said Sunday.
Hill has requested the meeting with Han Hwa-kap scheduled for Monday at the party's head office in Seoul, they said.
Hill was named last week to become an assistant secretary of state handling Asian affairs, a job that will double him to serve as the chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with North Korea.
Han is pushing to visit North Korea along with U.S. congress members later this year for talks with the communist country's leader, Kim Jong-il, on the ongoing nuclear tension on the Korean Peninsula, the officials said.
Han, who heads the Asian part of the Asia-U.S. Network, a forum of lawmakers from both continents, said earlier this year that he has sent invitations to five U.S. congressmen, including Republican senators Conrad Burns of Montana and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, to visit North Korea.
Han also noted that the New York senator, Clinton, wished to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il personally to discuss the ongoing nuclear standoff. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had actively pushed rapprochement with the North's regime in the final months of his Administration.
"We understand that the U.S. Congress and administration strongly support Sen. Hillary Clinton's North Korea visit," an aide to the Korean opposition leader said, requesting anonymity.
The United States and South Korea have met in three rounds of talks that also involve Japan, China, Russia and the North to bring a peaceful end to the 29-month dispute over the North's nuclear weapons program.
The countries have been unable to convene the next round, since the North refused to attend a scheduled meeting in September, citing what it calls U.S. hostility toward Pyongyang.
The situation has also worsened recently, following a series of announcements by Pyongyang that it now has atomic weapons and would boycott future disarmament talks and resume testing long-range missiles.
The North Korean leader, however, hinted at resuming the stalled dialogue by telling a visiting Chinese envoy last month that his country would return to the negotiating table if certain conditions are met.
They can keep her.
Visiting with other senators in the middle of problems with N. Korea...I cannot believe how low Hillary will stoop, to have Bill as SecGen of UN, and herself as president.
If I were in charge, she would NOT go. She can serve no useful purpose.
Han Hwa-kap continues his role as Kim Dae-jung's lap dog, trying anything to sustain "Sunshine policy" of his boss.
Oooooh Good grief!
Are we going to have to put up with this woman's grandstanding and pandering of tyrants for the next 4 years before we can dump her in the trash ..??
I really do not understand why SHE is the one selected to make this kind of trip - or why any members of the Congress are making this trip.
It was the Clinton's foreign policy that CAUSED THIS NK PROBLEM - WHY IN HELL DO WE WANT HER TO BE INVOLVED NOW ..??
Okay .. I'm thru ranting.
Ping!
Hillary going to North Korea?
Gee no suprise there eh
She has renew her Marxist membership LOL!
Two nuts in one room.
Hal maybe brothels in North Korea is any whorehouse in that part of the country
Only thing that I know about Roger he know all drug bars in North Korea LOL!
A. I have taken a means of music to promote better understanding and exchanges between the two countries. I think the Pyongyang concert was of great significance for restoring peace to the two Koreas and the United States.
All we need is a big hammer to crush them in a single blow.:)
Continue to rant. I thought we weren't negoiating (sp?) with terrorists. Don't worry, that's just the republicans, the demorats will do that for us. I hope NK tests one right on Hitlery's helicopter. >:-\
Hmmmm...maybe Hilary! is going there for a 'funding' meeting.
Mo money from the ChiComs & No Ko's.
"However, though the U.S. and north Korea have been in confrontation with each other, I could have an opportunity to pay homage to the late President Kim Il Sung, through my Pyongyang visit as well as the visit of my music concert. I think we have done what U.S. diplomats should do in north Korea."
OMG Rack JPF
Hey JPF we been discussing last month about Little Kim being depress since his favorite mistress allegely died of car accident or breast cancer
Hey matchmaker matchmaker let put Hillary and Little Kim that be great LOL!
Love Connection NOrth KOrea style LOL!
Doug he has be stone out of his mind say something like that
There is no good music out of North Korea please LOL!
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