YAY! Perhaps sweetness and light can get some things achieved after all.
It was a great move to send Bill - nobody believes he’s not connected to the govt, but at the same time everybody can maintain that it’s not an “official” visit
Bill missed a good chance to carry out a Georgi-Markov style assassination on Kim. How often does a westerner get that close?
So, here is the popular photo of Bill and…the other guy.
I think Bill knows…don’t smile or look friendly. Just pose.
Kim Jong-il looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy next to Bill. I wonder how tempted Bill was to pick the guy up, put him on his knee and try that old trick of the dummy talking while he drank a glass of water.
An interesting article on this: In peril in Pyongyang? How jailed female journalists were in greater danger sharing a plane with Bill Clinton
What’s interesting about it? I read it…I don’t get what’s noteworthy.