{"id":4777,"date":"2009-08-03T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/08\/bill-clinton-makes-surprise-trip-to-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T04:06:00","slug":"bill-clinton-makes-surprise-trip-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/08\/bill-clinton-makes-surprise-trip-to-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton makes &#8216;surprise trip&#8217; to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sne0BRUg79I\/AAAAAAAAMA0\/YyUDSrtKDrI\/s1600-h\/Clinton,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sne0BRUg79I\/AAAAAAAAMA0\/YyUDSrtKDrI\/s200\/Clinton,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365955414957551570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There was <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/cnn-guv-might-be-headed-to-north-korea.html\">talk in June<\/a> about the possibility of sending Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> or former Vice President <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Gore\" target=\"_blank\">Al Gore<\/a> to North Korea to negotiate the release of two U.S. journalists who were sentenced to 12 years in labor camps there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Instead, former President <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton<\/a> made what <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090804\/ap_on_re_as\/as_nkorea_journalists_held;_ylt=AgygvPmrEyny.UTfjYOzezus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM4cnI2Ymo1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODA0L2FzX25rb3JlYV9qb3VybmFsaXN0c19oZWxkBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDbm\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a> is calling \u201ca surprise trip\u201d to North Korea today \u201camid an international standoff over the country\u2019s nuclear program and concerns about two U.S. reporters imprisoned in Pyongyang since March.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Clinton\u2019s visit \u201ccomes amid heightened tensions over North Korea\u2019s string of nuclear and missile tests in defiance of U.N. resolutions, and calls from Washington for amnesty for the two reporters,\u201d the article states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was talk in June about the possibility of sending Gov. Bill Richardson or former Vice President Al Gore to North Korea to negotiate the release of two U.S. journalists who were sentenced to 12 years in labor camps there. Instead, former President Bill Clinton made what The Associated Press is calling \u201ca surprise trip\u201d [&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-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","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=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}