Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former U.S. Ambassador to...
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea Monday. The “timing … is not great” for Schmidt to visit North Korea with Richardson, but they are “private citizens”…
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so the State Department doesn’t have much else to say, agency spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a press briefing Friday. North Korea launched a long-range missile Dec. 12. She declined to answer whether the pair postponed their North Korea trip from December at State’s behest: “They are well aware of our views on this.” Asked whether the trip might actually help secure the release of a U.S. citizen being held in North Korea, given Richardson’s history of securing such releases from the isolated country, Nuland said the U.S. was working through “our Swedish protecting power” to secure the U.S. citizen’s release. Google has only said Schmidt’s visit is “personal.” Jared Cohen, director of the Google Ideas think tank and a former State policy adviser, also went on the trip.