{"id":1497,"date":"2007-03-30T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/richardson-to-travel-back-to-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T19:21:00","slug":"richardson-to-travel-back-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/richardson-to-travel-back-to-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson to travel back to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rg1jXgDZl_I\/AAAAAAAAB0o\/1DqYI5Tjehw\/s1600-h\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rg1jXgDZl_I\/AAAAAAAAB0o\/1DqYI5Tjehw\/s200\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047800012744529906\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>How many presidential candidates get to campaign for the job in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">North Korea<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>?  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070330\/ap_on_el_pr\/richardson_north_korea_1\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> will be doing just that next month. The news service quoted sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans are still being firmed up. <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign has not made an announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> will travel to the Asian state to meet with government officials. The communist nation, whose leaders have a long relationship with <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>, agreed recently to shut down its nuclear reactor in exchange for aid, but last week refused to return to talks until frozen funds were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So it will be a trip to help along the process, but it will be <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s first meeting with the North Koreans since announcing he\u2019s running for president and is certain to gain him a lot of attention. He has met with officials from the nation several times \u2013 in <st1:country-region st=\"on\">North Korea<\/st1:country-region> and <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> \u2013 in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many presidential candidates get to campaign for the job in North Korea? According to the Associated Press, Gov. Bill Richardson will be doing just that next month. The news service quoted sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans are still being firmed up. Richardson\u2019s campaign has not made an announcement. Richardson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}