From the mouth of Markos himself:
Richardson, in just the last couple of months, has brokered landmark deals in Darfur and North Korea — efforts that had stymied the Bush Administration through two terms. There is no one in American politics today more respected and accomplished on foreign policy than Bill Richardson.
Compare this to Hillary Clinton, [...]
Not only did Bill Richardson’s North Korea trip have some good results in terms of the country’s nuclear program, it came up big for international relief agencies, too. The L.A. Times has more, and the end of the New York Times article has specifics on how the World Food Program was about to pack [...]
Safe and sound. And he has results: the North Koreans agreeing to allow IAEA inspectors back in and rejoin the NPT. Democrats get stuff done, man, what can I say.
There’s been a flurry of activity on the North Korea trip; here’s a link to some of the good stuff.
First of all, Slate has a great background on the Gov’s history with N.K. that everyone should check out. Gov. Richardson has negotiated with the North Koreans in the past, which does some explaining as to [...]