Posted on 07/06/2011 8:43:21 AM PDT by CNSNews
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s nominee to a top State Department post is one of the few American diplomats to have met North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, whom she later described as “smart, capable and supremely confident.”
Wendy Sherman traveled to Pyongyang in 2000 in her capacity as counselor to then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Visiting South Korea four years later – when she was no longer in government – Sherman had positive things to say about the reclusive Stalinist leader.
“He’s not a lunatic, nor is he psychiatrically ill, but he has an inflated sense of power,” Seoul’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper quoted Sherman as telling students at a leading women’s university in March 2004.
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All these people who love these tryants why have they not moved there?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/john-bolton-on-wendy-sherman/2011/03/29/AGW2ULWH_blog.htmlIn a phone interview Wednesday afternoon with me (more on this in a separate piece), former U.N. ambassador John Bolton remarked on the potential nomination of Wendy Sherman to the No. 3 spot in the State Department. He was all too aware of her record on North Korea. He says she was ”centrally involved” in a policy that was nothing less than “appeasement.”
She served in the Clinton administration when our North Korean policy was totally messed up!
...and Ronery.
Guys, this was eleven years ago when the dimwit met the little NK tyrant...don’t you suppose he just might have changed over the intervening years? So, bottomline would be what he’s like now, not when clintoon was the prez.....
Just for fun, someone should ask her for her opinion of Sarah Palin...
what planet is she from
Maybe if she read the report of a sharpened steel cable being threaded underneath the collarbones of escapees being returned by China to North Korea and the returned escapees being walked thusly linked to one another to their deaths......
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