# Can you identify the people in this photo(Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Il)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-the-people-in-this-photo-bill-clinton-and-kim-jong-il/540700
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 25, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-the-people-in-this-photo-bill-clinton-and-kim-jong-il/540700 "2010-05-25T14:25:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-the-people-in-this-photo-bill-clinton-and-kim-jong-il/540700/1 "2010-05-25T14:25:57Z")
Here is the famous photo of Bill Clinton meeting Kim Jong Il.
[Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Il](http://www.doobybrain.com/tag/kimg-jong-il/)
If you scroll down, you can see the other people standing behind them.
Does anyone know who they are? I assume they are all American and am guessing the lady on the right is Clinton’s translator.
Anyone know the names?
That dude in the middle looks irritated they are taking a picture.
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### Author:  [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-the-people-in-this-photo-bill-clinton-and-kim-jong-il/540700/2 "2010-05-25T14:37:31Z")
The only one I know is the man behind Clinton’s left shoulder - John Podesta, his Chief of Staff.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-the-people-in-this-photo-bill-clinton-and-kim-jong-il/540700/3 "2010-05-25T14:49:14Z")
Just over Clinton’s left shoulder is his former chief of staff, John Podesta. The man standing farthest to our right I think is Davis Straub, a retired diplomat and expert on Korea. The rest are Secret Service people and “other aides.”
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### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-the-people-in-this-photo-bill-clinton-and-kim-jong-il/540700/4 "2010-05-25T17:18:04Z")
Dang… the subject of this thread made it sound like the world’s easiest question. 🙂
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### Author:  [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-the-people-in-this-photo-bill-clinton-and-kim-jong-il/540700/5 "2010-05-27T02:56:11Z")
> [@garygnu](#):
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> Just over Clinton’s left shoulder is his former chief of staff, John Podesta. The man standing farthest to our right I think is Davis Straub, a retired diplomat and expert on Korea. The rest are Secret Service people and “other aides.”
I’m sure that secret service folks were there, but they wouldn’t have been part of a staged photo. In addition to Straub, the other men are Douglas Band, a longtime Clinton aide, Justin Cooper, from Clinton’s foundation, and Roger Band, Clinton’s personal physician. I don’t recognize the female.