North Korea, that is.
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a United Nations ambassador in the Clinton administration who has long maintained contacts with North Korea, will travel next week to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, for talks aimed at persuading the North to give up its nuclear arms program, Mr. Richardson’s office and the Bush administration said Thursday.
Check out the NYT article.
This is a perfect example of what Andrea wrote about below. Most governors simply do not have this kind of experience, nor would they be able to handle themselves in a situation like this. But Richardson’s experience makes it possible and desirable.
Earlier today, I was getting worried because it seems like Mitt Romney (who, in many ways, is a Republican parallel–a governor of an opposite-party state trying to garner some mo’) is working harder to get attention than the Gov. Then Richardson drops this on me and I’m like, oh Bill, this is why I like ya.