[cmsgop]

From my understanding Bill. R was invited by the Norks, could be wrong .....

[AmericanInTokyo]

I am sure that he, along with Jimmy Carter, sought them out through the DPRK mission in New York City and not vice versa, and Richardson won out (or they draw straws) as to which one would fly up to Pyongyang to deliver the typical, crisis-laden, last minute panicked, weakneed, easily-fooled, same mistake over and over, US appeasement bl*wjobs to the Norks.

The South should just remark to Richardson the sooner he gets out of Pyongyang the better.

I might add that today, the South forbid any South Korean workers from going up to the North Korean industrial complex in Kaesong, just north of the DMZ near Panmunjom, for fear of them becoming human shields or hostages.