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You mean you didn't find it odd that Eric Schmidt traveled to North Korea?
by brisance 13y ago
You mean you didn't find it odd that Eric Schmidt traveled to North Korea?
- cromwellian 13y agoDid you find it odd when Vice Media took Dennis Rodman and the Harlem GlobeTrotters to NK? Eric Schmidt has been traveling around the globe lately as he was researching for his book, he also went to Burma and a few other places. I'm not really sure what the claims are supposed to be, what was he going to do in NK that the State Department couldn't do themselves? Spy? Negotiate nuclear arms? When Tom Friedman travels to say, Sri Lanka, is it on behalf of the CIA, or because he wants to write another sappy book on globalization? Sometimes things are much more mundane. Vice media actually got to meet NK leadership (dinner with Kim Jong Un), but they were really just looking to do gonzo journalism -- even if they were debriefed by the government when they returned.
- anxiousest 13y agoHe went in part to meet with an American citizen imprisoned there, also worth noting that the state department didn't approve of the visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/world/asia/bill-richardson-and-eric-schmidt-of-google-visit-north-korea.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/world/asia/bill-richardson...