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Report: Former President Clinton Heading to N. Korea for Talks on Jailed Journalists

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Report: Former President Clinton Heading to N. Korea for Talks on Jailed Journalists - Political News - FOXNews.com

SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean news agency says former President Bill Clinton is heading to North Korea to negotiate the release of two detained American journalists.

Yonhap news agency says Clinton is on his way to Pyongyang, citing an unidentified high-level source. Yonhap said Tuesday that when Clinton arrives he will enter negotiations to win the release of the reporters. It is not clear when he will arrive.

The reporters, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts."

This is wrong in so many ways I can't even begin to started. Mr. Clinton should decline and explain to Mr. Obama that we do not negotiate with North Korea untill they release the two American's Actually if Mr. Obama had a back bone he would have made it crystal clear to North Korea that htey have two choice release them or face Military Actions.
 
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"release them or face military action?" You would go to war over two journalists? What a silly thing to say.

Meanwhile, Clinton will probably bring them home on his plane. Then we can have a conversation about your "backbone" versus actually getting results.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
This is wrong in so many ways I can't even begin to started. Mr. Clinton should decline and explain to Mr. Obama that we do not negotiate with North Korea untill they release the two American's Actually if Mr. Obama had a back bone he would have made it crystal clear to North Korea that htey have two choice release them or face Military Actions.
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How's that " We don't negotiate" mentality working? This has got nothing to do with backbone Obama may or may not have. This has got more to do with who NK is willing to talk to. If it's Clinton, so be it. I'd rather he did it than giving NK the satisfaction of being able to show the world he manipulated our president into meeting his terms.
 
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BS!

"billy the clinton" is just on a "tail" hunting expedition. Gee, I wonder what the quid pro quo will be for those two reporters if billy the clinton gets them out of NK?
 
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God forbid he meet an Asian intern.

Shouldn't Hillary be handling this?
 
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Face military action? I do hope you will be the one to sign up first? Oh, and do you also mind if we tax the *$&# out of you as well, as I think we still have a few trillion left to pay for Iraq.
 
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sam_w said:
Face military action? I do hope you will be the one to sign up first? Oh, and do you also mind if we tax the *$&# out of you as well, as I think we still have a few trillion left to pay for Iraq.
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I've been to Korea how about you Sam. Oh and I think I pay enough tax's thans to your Friends from Congress
 
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WillRockwell said:
"release them or face military action?" You would go to war over two journalists? What a silly thing to say.

Meanwhile, Clinton will probably bring them home on his plane. Then we can have a conversation about your "backbone" versus actually getting results.
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Mr. Clinton will never get them out,I guess you really don't understand North Korea. hell I bet they won't even let Mr. Clinton close to the DMZ.
 
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Erod said:
God forbid he meet an Asian intern.

Shouldn't Hillary be handling this?
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Good Point the last time I looked she was the Sect. of State and this is part of her job title.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
Good Point the last time I looked she was the Sect. of State and this is part of her job title.
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I think sending Bill Clinton was a brilliant strategy. He has an ability to connect with people that should be used to our advantage.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
Mr. Clinton will never get them out,I guess you really don't understand North Korea. hell I bet they won't even let Mr. Clinton close to the DMZ.
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Well here he is in Pyongyang, so you're wrong already. Like to bet some cash he takes them out on that plane behind him?

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LOL, looks like that boarding ramp was made from a '62 Cadillac
 
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Scorpion89 said:
Good Point the last time I looked she was the Sect. of State and this is part of her job title.
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No, this is beneath her job title, but its a perfect job for a respected ambassador without portfolio.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
Report: Former President Clinton Heading to N. Korea for Talks on Jailed Journalists - Political News - FOXNews.com

SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean news agency says former President Bill Clinton is heading to North Korea to negotiate the release of two detained American journalists.

Yonhap news agency says Clinton is on his way to Pyongyang, citing an unidentified high-level source. Yonhap said Tuesday that when Clinton arrives he will enter negotiations to win the release of the reporters. It is not clear when he will arrive.

The reporters, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts."

This is wrong in so many ways I can't even begin to started. Mr. Clinton should decline and explain to Mr. Obama that we do not negotiate with North Korea untill they release the two American's Actually if Mr. Obama had a back bone he would have made it crystal clear to North Korea that htey have two choice release them or face Military Actions.
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I think it is a bad idea to send any former president to North Korea. They got two journalist,why not add a former president to that collection?
 
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Well, Clinton went in to NK and is expected to leave with the journalists. I guess all the chatter about this being crazy and useless was mute. Another point to Clinton.
 
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Go Bill, Go! I think this is a great move. He isn't part of the Obama administration. Yet he has enough respect, star power and prestige to make the North Koreans wet their pants with delight. They will milk the photo opportunity for months. All the while Obama can say it wasn't me or my people. Bill did it on his own. Even though everyone knows that is bull spit. But hey, it is all about perception.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
This is wrong in so many ways I can't even begin to started. Mr. Clinton should decline and explain to Mr. Obama that we do not negotiate with North Korea untill they release the two American's Actually if Mr. Obama had a back bone he would have made it crystal clear to North Korea that htey have two choice release them or face Military Actions.
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Here's an idea: How about we get the girls back, doing or saying whatever we have to, placating and manipulating their unsophisticated representatives and megalomaniac leader, THEN put them right back on the State Dept. ****list?

Oh, wait a minute, that's what we are doing?

Look at the pictures Scorpion. Kim is a star-****er who can't believe he's shaking the the hand of a U.S. President. Clinton is a shrewd negotiator/diplomat/politician. He's playing them like a Steinway.

They're so busy nodding and smiling, thinking they won some sort of victory getting a sit-down with a former Pres., they don't realize that we could end their nuclear program in an hour if we wanted to.

What's wrong with having our cake and eating it too? If the girls come back safely, what have we lost? Absolutely nothing!

If they were half the badasses that they pretend to be, Clinton wouldn't step foot in N. Korea.
 
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AndrewC said:
Go Bill, Go! I think this is a great move. He isn't part of the Obama administration. Yet he has enough respect, star power and prestige to make the North Koreans wet their pants with delight. They will milk the photo opportunity for months. All the while Obama can say it wasn't me or my people. Bill did it on his own. Even though everyone knows that is bull spit. But hey, it is all about perception.
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Exactly, this is all about perception and star-power. We get what we want and give up nothing.

The far-right will still have their hissy fit. After all, it was only two non-whites that we were bringing home...:roll:
 
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Uh oh. Clinton succeeded............ :rofl
 
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jamesrage said:
I think it is a bad idea to send any former president to North Korea. They got two journalist,why not add a former president to that collection?
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He's one of the them already, they won't keep him. He's doing their work out here.


...and if they did keep him, who would care?
 
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Scarecrow Akhbar said:
He's one of the them already, they won't keep him. He's doing their work out here.


...and if they did keep him, who would care?
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Blah, blah, blah. Why bash Bill? He wasn't the one dumb enough to be captured by the North Koreans and create an international incident. No one wanted to be the poster boy for NK's propaganda machine. Bill took the hit. He didn't have to do it, but he did.
 
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Scorpion89 said:
Mr. Clinton will never get them out,I guess you really don't understand North Korea. hell I bet they won't even let Mr. Clinton close to the DMZ.
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Guess you don't understand North Korea after all, mmmmm?
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