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Jesse Jackson says ready to go to North Korea for prisoner
[Straits Times] United States (US) civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said on Monday he was ready to meet  North Korea's leader to free an imprisoned American and reduce ill-will between the two countries.Trade even up? Sounds good. US officials have said that Jackson volunteered to travel to Pyongyang after the totalitarian state abruptly canceled the visit of a US envoy, Robert King, who aimed to free Korean-American tour operator Kenneth Bae. Jackson said in a televised interview with CNN that he had put "high hopes" in King, but after the trip was called off, wrote a letter to North Korean leader Kim PudgeJong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... . Mr Jackson said he told Mr Kim he would "like to meet with him face-to-face to seek to work out some mutual respect, some recognising each other's illusory sovereignty, each other's will to peace". Posted by: Fred 2014-02-11 |
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