N.Korea using Clinton visit 'to promote Kim's son'

[bemildred]

Source: AFP

SEOUL — North Korea has been using Bill Clinton's visit to Pyongyang last week to promote leader Kim Jong-Il's son as the communist nation's next head of state, a news report said Sunday.

Former US president Clinton traveled to Pyongyang last week to take home two journalists jailed for having illegally entered North Korea.

Seoul's Yonhap news agency, quoting an unnamed source, said Pyongyang's National Security Agency was praising Kim Jong-Un, third son and heir apparent to Kim Jong-Il, 67, for having engineered the episode.

According to Yonhap, the North's powerful secret police said in a recent "internal lecture" that "General Kim Jong-Un's artifice let former US president Clinton cross the Pacific to apologise to the Great Leader (Kim Jong-Il).

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For the record I still support bringing those two women home. This does explain more about N. Koreas motives in this.

[WriteDown]

1. Agreed...

I was wondering when we'd get more of an explanation.

[FarPoint]

11. We too had ulterior motives....

a mini spy mission as well.........to size up the leadership. John Podesta was there for a reason.....

[Ian David]

2. That's good. I love L'il Kim!

[Sultana]

3. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ohio2007]

4. Lil Kims boy getting ready to play games ? Welcome to the NFL

Not
For
Long son


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4003199

[JDPriestly]

5. This is a silly story.

Had Clinton not gone, then the supporters of the son would have used the fact that N.K. was keeping the women prisoners to support him.

The son is going to be lauded for doing something and for doing nothing. It has nothing to do with Clinton of the freeing of the women.

This story is a waste of time.

[marshall]

6. I want to know when one of our presidents is being used for propaganda

Separate from the issues involved with this case, I think the US public has an interest in knowing when something like this happens. We don't live in a vacuum, we need to understand the dynamics of the world community.

[kirby]

7. Uhh..

Anytime you deal with a dictatorship which has total control over all aspect of the media, is it propaganda.

[bemildred]

9. Anybody can use anybody for propaganda anytime they want to.

Obama is being used for propaganda all the time right here in the USA. I could not care less. You start worrying about what liars will say about you and there is never any end to it.

[JonQ]

8. This is why they've been so eager to deal directly with a US president

the propaganda value.

[bemildred]

10. US Official: Kim Jong Il in Full Control in N.Korea

The U.S. national security adviser says North Korean leader Kim Jong Il still appears to be in "full control" of his government.

Jim Jones based the assessment Sunday on reports from the recent trip of former U.S. President Bill Clinton to North Korea.

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He said Mr. Clinton's visit was first proposed by North Korea in messages conveyed by the jailed journalists to their families.

Jones said North Korea has indicated it would like better relations with the United States.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-09-voa15.cfm

[JonQ]

13. "Better relations"

to them means they continue to act as they please, and we continue to fund their regime in the forms of oil and food aid.

They could have good relations with the US if they were to reduce their military, stop firing rockets over our allies and desist in their nuclear program.

It's not like we have a million man army poised on the border ready to invade *their* country.

[bemildred]

14. So you are not buying it, eh?

Well, it's nice that we can agree about something.

[JonQ]

15. Nope

not buying much of anything coming out of North Korea in the past 50 years.

That is an insane country that will never be acceptable as long as the current leadership is in power.

They're overdo for a revolution and round of beheadings, a few thousand would probably do.

[bemildred]

16. A few thousand beheadings? Are you sure that's enough? nt

[JonQ]

17. Well, a lot would be killed in the revolution

and still more would flee.

[Turbineguy]

12. When crazy works,

stick with crazy.