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.
Let's just hope Hillary doesn't try to copy the Condi coat- blowing open photo.
Well, well, well. We could have some REAL fun with this one.
And with the whole world reading here on FR, maybe even Hillary's sycophants or staffers, and certainly Pyongyang, I'm not going to go into details.
However, we could get a 'two fer'. We could use it to really screw the DPRK as well as fowl up for good Hillary's chances at the White House due to national security....well, I'll stop here.
Hillary is not in charge of state.
Oh, I hadn't realized that. Thanks for alerting me.
Kim Jong-Hil.
How can she do this?
Diplomatic passport.
The first time I read that I was momentarily distracted and I thought it said, "or I'll send Hillary to throw a lap dance at you!"
I started to gouge my eyes out but thought I'd scan the post again just to make sure...
You know, with the right amplification, Rog could destroy the NK with his singing...
They get Godzillary, we get Kim Jong Il, two future draft choices and an undisclosed amount of cash. A Win-Win situation.
The administration can't stop her. There are 3 equal branches of gov't. The exec. branch can't interfere with the Legislative branch.
She's got to show solidarity with her comrades!;)
The President has exclusive power to negotiate with foreign countries, per Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution. He has exclusive power to appoint ambassadors, permanent or otherwise. He has control over visas. He thus has power to approve or deny congressional visits to a hostile nuclear power, especially in time of war. You will find no enumerated powers in the Constitution authorizing members of Congress to negotiate with a foreign government.
WELLL you got a point there beside maybe her Marxist membership card past due so she need go to North Korea renew it LOL!
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