{"id":24131,"date":"2010-12-07T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=24131"},"modified":"2010-12-07T14:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T21:45:35","slug":"richardson-may-visit-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/12\/richardson-may-visit-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson may visit North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8531\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8531\" title=\"Richardson3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson3-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson3-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson3.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the situation in North Korea having gotten pretty dicey in recent months, Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\">Bill Richardson<\/a> \u2013 a favorite of the North Korean government \u2013 may be heading back there next week.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/07\/AR2010120703126.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAdm. Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, is off this week to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/world\/countries\/korea.html?nav=el\">South Korea<\/a> to tell officials that the United States is standing with them. And there\u2019s talk that outgoing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson may be off to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/world\/countries\/korea.html?nav=el\">North Korea<\/a> next week for a private chat with top officials at the invitation of key people in the nuclear crowd over there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Richardson, a former ambassador and a global troubleshooter, has negotiated with the North Koreans several times in the past. In fact, during the Bush presidency, the North Koreans came to Santa Fe to talk to Richardson rather than going to Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the situation in North Korea having gotten pretty dicey in recent months, Gov. Bill Richardson \u2013 a favorite of the North Korean government \u2013 may be heading back there next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[112,107,116],"class_list":["post-24131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-richardson","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24131","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=24131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}