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Former President Clinton Meets With North Korean Dictator
A Blog For All —
... Former President Bill Clinton is in North Korea , hoping to get the North Korean dictator Kim Il Jung to release two Americans, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, from prison. Both were tried and convicted on trumped up charges, and now the former President is giving Kim the attention he craves. What is Clinton going to give North Korea in exchange for the release of the two Americans? Clinton "courteously conveyed a verbal message" to Kim from President Obama, North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. But White House spokesman Robert Gibbs denied that Clinton ...
Clinton Gets Lucky
doubleplusundead —
... , FrnakJ gave some excellent ideas for who or what we should send to North Korea instead of Clinton. As I wrote, I didn't think he was putting enough thought into it and I stuck up for Obama. And.... I was right! (via Drudge,duh) Who else would you send to pick up two chicks anywhere ? Posted by: Veeshir at ...
Good News: North Korea Pardons Imprisoned US Journalists
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Via CNN: N. Korean leader pardons U.S. journalists.
As was reported earlier today, former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea today to seeks the release of two US journalists who has been imprisoned in North Korea, “Laura Ling and Euna Lee, both reporters for California-based Current TV, a media venture launched by Clinton’s Vice President Al Gore.”
I hope that the Blogosphere doesn’t get caught up in Clinton’s involvement or the Gore connection and simply be pleased that these women have been freed from the nightmare that ...
Big Dog=Appeaser?
INSTAPUTZ —
... "Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists against the DPRK after illegally intruding into it," the news agency reported. "Clinton courteously conveyed to Kim Jong Il an earnest request of the U.S. government to leniently pardon them and send them back home from a humanitarian point of view. --CNN ...
Bill Clinton Delivers in North Korea – Freedom for Journalists That Is
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... This frame grab from South Korean television taken in Seoul shows former US President Bill Clinton(R) and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il posing for a picture in Pyongyang.Clinton arrived in North Korea on a surprise mission to free two jailed American journalists, the highest-profile visit by an American to Pyongyang for nearly a decade ...
North Korea ‘Pardons’ Two Journalists
The Moderate Voice —
... North Korean’s Supreme Nutjob has ‘pardoned’ the two journalists they have been holding captive and they will be on the way home soon. ...
Clinton Negotiates Reporters’ Release from North Korea
Patterico's Pontifications —
[Guest post by DRJ]
That’s Bill Clinton, not Hillary:
“[Former President Bill] Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists against the DPRK after illegally intruding into it,” the news agency reported. “Clinton courteously conveyed to Kim Jong Il an earnest request of the U.S. government to leniently pardon them and send them back home from a humanitarian point of view.”
Reporters Laura Ling and Eula Lee, employees ...
US Journalists Freed
INSTAPUTZ —
Bill Clinton meets Kim. Journalists pardoned hours later. Just remember that you can't negotiate with Evil and it is a sign of weakness to have dialogue with The Enemy. It would have been so much more effective if we invaded. ...
Bill Clinton's mission accomplished
The Reaction —
... President Clinton is now returning home with the two young American reporters being held at hard labor in that stinkhole North Korea. Mission Accomplished. ...
Keli Goff: Bill Clinton, the Comeback Cat
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... in the 1980s, President Clinton reminded us all just how relevant he still is, by helping to secure the release of captured journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling in North Korea. ...
