North Korea at night. It looks like North Korea is already on board. Al Gore wants the U.S. to look like this.
Posted on 06/04/2009 6:55:29 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Al Gore may visit N.K. for detained reporters
The United States Thursday did not rule out the possibility of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore flying to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American journalists detained for alleged illegal entry while reporting in the area, according to news reports. "This is such a sensitive issue, I'm just not going to go into those kinds of discussions that we may or may not have had," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters when asked about Gore's possible trip to Pyongyang. "The bottom line is that these two young women should be released, but I'm not going to go into any kind of details on what we will or won't do."
Speculation has mounted that Gore could visit the North Korean capital in his capacity as chairman of Current TV, a San Francisco-based Internet news outlet, for which Euna Lee and Laura Ling work.
North Korea said earlier in the day that the trial for the two reporters will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday (Korean time), without elaborating.
Kelly said that he had "seen press reports that the trial has started," but added that the Swedish ambassador in Pyongyang, Mats Foyer, who handles consular affairs involving American citizens in North Korea, was denied access to the trial.
"We were informed through the Swedish ambassador that no observers would be allowed at the trial," the spokesman said. "We don't really know anything about how long it will take. And we continue to call for the release of these two women."
Foyer has met with the journalists three times each since their detention on March 17 on the Chinese border with North Korea.
Lee and Ling face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, as they are under trial for alleged illegal entry and "hostile acts."
Previous detentions of U.S. citizens by North Korea lasted several months before their eventual release.
A U.S. pilot was detained in North Korea in 1994 when his military chopper was shot down after straying across the border, and another American citizen, Evan Hunziker, was apprehended after he swam the Yalu River to North Korea from the Chinese side in 1996.
Both spent several months in the North before New Mexico Gov.
Bill Richardson, then a U.S. congressman, visited Pyongyang to successfully negotiate their release.
U.S. officials hope the trial signals their early release, just as with American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was set free by Iran weeks ago on a suspended prison term after getting an eight-year sentence for espionage.
2009.06.05
1. Two American LEFTIST reporters go to North Korean border for a report. Are "taken prisoner".
2. US State Dept., eager to capitulate to NK demands, considering sending AL GORE (the women's boss) to Pyongyang on a Jimmy Carter/Bill Richardson-type kowtow mission, submitting weakly and defensively to North Korean blackmail--DPRK who holds all the cards and skillfully, once again, plays the Americans and their piss-poor negotiating tactics and lack of resolve, for huge saps.
3. Al Gore gets what he wants; release of his two liberal American reporters, and direct dialogue between North Korea and US begins--which is North Korea's tactic
4. Japan and South Korea get the shaft in response, because the dangerous issue of North Korea is allowed to continue and something is given away in the negotiating process. Obama, Gore and Kim Jong il (who showed last minute "mercy", all come out smelling like roses, CNN/MSNBC/New York Times goes wild.
5. The whole thing becomes a huge cause celebre among American liberals, reporters, student campuses, trendy coffee shops in San Francisco...all the while completely having ignored for years North Korea's huge, across the board axis-of-evil ATROCITIES such as boiling people alive and filming it for Kim Jong il's fun, or blowing up commercial airliners full of South Korean construction workers returning from the Middle East to Seoul....
6. Not a single Japanese or S. Korean kidnap victim, there much longer than these two Americans, ever gets released.
Like I said, you can not MAKE this stuff up.
Even one of the women's sisters has stated the problem is that there is no direct diplomacy between North Korea and Washington. Anybody else out there suspicious about the timing of this, or questioning of the Obama State Department and liberaldom, appeasing Pyongyang, over the whole fiasco?
I know I smell a rat, even if the rat was developed midstream as a product of happenstance....
Ping!
I hope Al tells the NK’s they better get with the program on global warming.
(I’m sure they’ll be most receptive.)
North Korea is with the program. Did you ever see the satellite photo of how it goes completely dark at night?
What would bother me is that he might come back.
“I hope Al tells the NK’s they better get with the program on global warming.”
Perhaps the trip is for buying cap and trade credits?
North Korea at night. It looks like North Korea is already on board. Al Gore wants the U.S. to look like this.
Maybe they’ll keep him????? He’ll guarantee them that the US will not put pressure on them concerning global warming.
You got logic.
Japaneseghost loves AmericanInTokyo.
I’d like to hear that Al Gore actually read a book on the North Korean concentration camp system, ‘The Aquariums of Pyongyang’ by Kang Chol-Hwan, I’m willing to bet he might moderate his view of the Norks.
..........I hope Al tells the NK’s they better get with the program on global warming.....................
“Meester Gore: We have no global warming:
We hsve no electric; we hsve no animals or food; we have no (how you say) automobiles; we have no petroleum or coal.
Meester Gore, we are the most proud of the world in global warming, and we all know that you would likee the rest of the world to bee jes likee us!
We eat dirt in darkness, please join us!”
One can only hope.
That one light is the Chia Pet’s palace.
Al could end up in a big stew pot.
Probably just going to collect more money from Buddhist Monks.
Can they KEEP him please!?
A scene right out of Team America = two
“ronrey” guys. Release the panther...
Maybe they’ll imprison him too! What a relief that would be.
Well, “YES” and “NO”, equally, of course!
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