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WSJ: Eric Schmidt Makes Trip to North Korea
https://www.wsj.com/video/eric-schmidt-makes-trip-to-north-korea/9220BCF3-CB89-48D3-8384-A80373F64EA8.html
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has gone to North Korea ... Nissenbaum who joins us now from Washington DC has been covering this... I'm wanting to know more about Google's CEO Eric Schmidt’s role
Do we know why he's gone on this trip ... with the former ... governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, who has been to North Korea several times ... on various ... diplomatic missions to free hostages in the past American hostages ... but … to be honest it's not really clear what the Google Chairman really wants to do on this trip ... Richardson has been the only one talking about it so far…but Google's chairman hasn't spoken about it ... there is also ... the head of the Google think tank based in New York ...
Google officials said that they didn't know anything about it until it was broken in the news
So Google’s people are saying it's not an official ...
Governor Richardson said that they planned this trip... for last month ... and the State Department asked them to delay the trip until after the ... elections in neighboring South Korea which they did ... subsequent to that North Korea had its out long range ... missile launch with it that satellite into orbit... which was widely condemned around the world and the US State dept again asked Richardson to delay the trip ... they publicly said that the timing wasn't good ... but Gov Richardson said “look ... no time is good to go to North Korea… they're always gonna be alienating somebody and we're going now … we made the plans and go forward ..”
... the Google Chairman is NOT MEETING WITH KIM, but... I think that he's likely to have some pretty ... high powered meetings with government officials to come and see what kind of businesses what kind of openings there are ... there has also been some reports out of the region today that Google plans to make some sort of donation ...but, I'm not exactly clear what that is …