Posted on 03/06/2005 5:24:41 PM PST by HAL9000
Hillary Clinton and Senators Plan Own Trip to Pyongyang: Sources
SEOUL, March 7 (Yonhap) -- Hillary Clinton and four other U.S. senators are working to arrange their own trip to Pyongyang to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, sources here said Monday.
"U.S. senators such as Hillary Clinton and Chuck Hagel have always been interested in North Korean issues," said Lee Young-tak, a secretary to the chairman of the minor opposition Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), Han Hwa-kap.
The MDP chairman also heads the Asian side of the Asia-U.S. Network, a forum of lawmakers from both continents, and has been supporting the U.S. senators' plan to visit both Koreas.
"They are working to get approval from the U.S. administration while people like (former secretary of state) James Baker are working to help the arrangement," Lee told Yonhap news agency.
The remarks came after Philippe Reines, a press secretary to Sen. Clinton, said "no such trip has been discussed or planned," in a letter to the Yonhap News Agency.
Officials at the South Korean party, however, said this may be because no firm schedule has been set.
"They are very uncomfortable with the news reports about their trip because they are still working on arranging it," Lee said.
The MDP chairman is also scheduled to meet U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Christopher Hill on Monday at the latter's request, according to the party officials, to discuss a plan by five U.S. senators, including Republican Conrad Burns of Montana and Hagel of Nebraska, to visit Pyongyang.
MDP spokesman Yoo Jong-pil said the party chairman has not personally met the former first lady to deliver an invitation to make the North Korea trip, but said there have been discussions between the two to that end.
The United States and South Korea have been trying to defuse North Korea's latest nuclear dispute in three rounds of six-party talks that also involve Japan, China, Russia and North Korea.
The talks were frozen in June as North Korea refused to return to the negotiating table, citing what it calls U.S. hostility.
"These senators, including Hillary Clinton, have been known for their interest in North Korea, and we are hoping their visit to Pyongyang will help North Korea wash away some of its doubts about U.S. policy toward it," said Lee.
Actually we could do without both of those hoseheads, but the other one keeps finding cameras stateside.
I sure hope Dear Leader Kim doesn't take her and McCain hostage. |
It may be unsafe to go there. Go, Hillary, go.
Gosh, I hope North Korea keeps all 5 of them. Let them go!
LOL. So many Freepers think alike... ;)
I wonder if she'll take her pet dog, Jack Reed, with her?
What else is a skank, soon to be Presidential candidate, suppose to do?
The Red Queen returns home to receive further orders.
That was my very first thought also. Surely Kim Jong's people have watched the Iraqi news and have caught onto hostage-taking. But we don't negotiate, do we? (evil smile)
That's it, she's reminding me of kerry in that they seem to forget GWB is the President. Hellary just finished a faux pas in Iraq, shudder to think what stupid remark she might make in North Korea.
And her husband Damien recently irked China with his visit to Taiwan. With these two cavorting around the world America is bound to be the worse for it. Damn, they just don't seem to go away, 13 years of the Clintons is sickening. Arrrghhh.
They're definitely sending the wrong person to unfreeze something.
TITLE 18 - PART I - CHAPTER 45 - § 953
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
I am not a lawyer, but I seem to remember that the Logan Act has been brought up before when various members of the legislative bodies have visited hostile governments for unofficial negotiations without seeking approval from the executive. However, I don't believe that there has ever been a prosecution of a member of congress for an alleged violation, just discussion of it.
She's just going to keep Il from being so ronery. Maybe she'll give him a hootchie-kootchie dance like Madd-y Halfbright did.
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