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.
I got better idea photoshop Kim Jong 11 puppet from Team America with Hillary photo
I am so bad tonight LOL!
Hey Little Kim won't be so ronay anymore
Naw, the Commies are using offshore accounts to feed The Enemy Within...this is just a 'reassurance' visit to keep the dough rolling by Hitlery Clinton.
YOU Forgot something here what about Buddist Temple in Los Angeles that Al Gore went to visit remember Hill Beast has come to SO CAL get her license renew if you know what I mean LOL!
I am laughing so hard right now about the dog comments
That kinda cool Dogs are cute Hillary is not LOL!
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OH Man that too many comments think about it LOL!
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OH Man that too many comments think about it LOL!
Part of the foreign policy expertise fantasy camp experience. Kerry attended the camp right after the losing the election.
Exactly right. She can't negotiate with the North Koreans, and they know it. They might be trying to cast her in the role of "useful idiot" for publicity purposes, but that's riskier for her than it is for the Admin.
Historically, the President has not tried to stop Congress from taking foreign junkets, even to countries where most citizens are barred from visiting. With everything on his plate, it would be silly for Pres. Bush to spend any of his political capital on such a meaningless fight.
I don't share your hubris. The woman is dangerous, and will help the North Koreans give the President the black eye she needs to get elected.
Would you care to explain a little more clearly? Since I'm not hillary's political opposition, I don't see why my opinion can be classified as "hubris".
And I really haven't noticed that many Americans are impacted by the North Korean opinion.
As you should know very well, Hillary is a traitor, a communist protoge of Saul Alinsky, turned proto-fascist corporate crook, along with her misbegotten "husband." She would do anything to get elected, including offering a special deal to the North Koreans if she does, and making it entirely clear that stonewalling the President, or even abetting an act of terrorism, so that she can accuse the Republicans of neglecting the defense of this nation for their adventure in Iraq, is in North Korea's "best interests."
Is that clear enough?
A.I. -
Thats a good one.
I don't like hillary any more than you do. But I really don't think I want the Bush Admin. distracted by her antics. Do you really think that many American voters will vote for her because she is friendly to NK?
She'd have a long way to go to make that an issue that American voters would care about.
What is this another taxpayer paid photo-op and scam tour for Mrs. Clinton to do CYA work?
They might vote for her because she seems more capable of negotiating "peace" with NK, the mantra of the Slave Party being all about "negotiation."
If there is an act of nuclear terrorism on US soil, you can bet she'll be accusing Bush of lax border control and misplaced priorities. She has every reason to ask North Korea to abet that.
I won't even comment....
Maybe the shrillary(Tung Moo) of NK will see the light and stay there forever. She would fit right in with the Kim Il Jong. I think she should wear the North Korean military uniform. Hillary looks appropriate in commie green. NSNR
Possibly it is democratic,"happy thought" in motion. A very sad excuse for a woman and human being.
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