Bill Clinton briefed W.House on N.Korea -spokesman

[steven johnson]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton has briefed a member of the White House's National Security Council about his trip to North Korea, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Thursday.
Clinton, husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, secured the release of two American journalists from North Korea this week after meeting with the country's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il.
The former president started formally debriefing White House officials about the trip, the first high-level U.S. contact with North Korea in nearly a decade, by speaking to a NSC staffer Wednesday night, Gibbs told reporters.
He said President Barack Obama, who has called on North Korea to give up its ambitions of becoming a nuclear-weapons power, also would meet with Clinton to discuss the trip. Gibbs did not say when the session would take place.


Read more:   http://www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSN0632237920090806

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1. "Clinton, husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton"

I just love this! husband of Hillary Clinton

No disrespect implied to President Clinton. Just a lot of pride and well deserved respect for our SOS!

[ohio2007]

2. interesting comment made by one of the "daring" journalists ( a truth or dare moment ? )

or maybe
how wrong they were to be sneaking a geographically correct pic for future bragging rights for taking "one small step" into utopia while they were being tracked a mile away ;)

US desists from loosening up on North Korea

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday held back from making conciliatory gestures to North Korea after Bill Clinton’s visit there, and Clinton said he wanted to avoid saying anything publicly that might “tip the balance.”

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Lisa Ling told CNN on Thursday that her sister planned to write an editorial to explain events which led to her and Lee’s capture by North Korean authorities.

“She wants to divulge exactly what happened,” Lisa Ling, herself a television personality, said of her 32-year-old sister Laura. “When they left US soil they never intended to cross into North Korea,” Ling said about the pair stepping from China into one of the world’s most secretive countries while researching a story on human trafficking. “She did say they touched North Korean territory very, very briefly,” Ling said.
“She said it was maybe 30 seconds. And then, you know, everything just sort of got chaotic,” she added.
agencies


http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C08%5C08%5Cstory_8-8-2009_pg4_1&FORM=ZZNR8

“She did say they touched North Korean territory very, very briefly,” Ling said. “She said it was maybe 30 seconds. And then, you know,.....
;)

yeah,
you know it happens.
maybe Ling will tell "the truth" in your upcomming 15 minutes of fame editorial also.


LOL





Meanwhile

Kim's merchant ships are still being punked by outrageous acts of 'piracy'...... currently being done by of all people,

Indians !!

Chief Wahoo

India intercepts North Korean ship

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian investigators are investigating a North Korean vessel they say had ignored warnings and sailed close to an unusual location off its remote island chain in the Bay of Bengal.

The vessel, which had a crew of 39, was carrying a cargo of sugar, said K.R. Nautiyal, the deputy inspector-general of the Indian coast guard at the Andamans.

It was bound from Thailand to Iraq but changed course and anchored off Hut Bay without responding to calls from coast guard authorities, he said.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4006138

go away Lil Kim,
hurry up and 'stroke out' already.

http://news.oneindia.in/2009/08/08/suspicious-north-korean-ship-detained-by-india.html

so "spooks" can start molding new relationships

lol