WHAT IS BILL RICHARDSON DOING?

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Just what is going on here? What I want to know is why did Richardson go to collect soldiers remains instead of DPMO personnel (Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office)? Why is this Richardson's 6th trip to North Korea? What is a Governor doing running around to “global hot spots"? He has more than he can handle with the border jumpers overrunning New Mexico. Something stinks here.

The Pueblo was the first abandonment of our fighting men on the high seas. The Captain was ordered to surrender. The ship was not "defenseless", it should have been scuttled to prevent the North Koreans from seizing the state of the of the art electronics on the ship. Something still stinks here.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday toured a U.S. warship captured by North Korea in the 1960s that is now used to inspire anti-American sentiment in the reclusive communist regime.
The North Korea colonel who served as Richardson's guide smiled as he told the governor the ship was an example of continued U.S. aggression toward his country. Richardson and his traveling companion, former Veteran Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi, were then shown bullet holes circled in red paint and a video describing the maneuvering of "brazen-faced U.S. imperialists."
The USS Pueblo was captured by North Korea on Jan. 23, 1968, after being sent defenseless on an intelligence-gathering mission off the country's coast. It was the first U.S. warship captured since 1807, and remains the only active-duty warship in foreign hands.
Navy records show the ship was in international waters at the time of its capture; the North insists it was inside the Korean coastal zone. North Korea held the ship's crew of 82 for 11 months before releasing them. The ship was then moored to the bank of the Taedong River in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
Richardson, a Democratic presidential candidate who is in North Korea this week to collect the remains of U.S. servicemen killed in the Korean War, said the tour of the ship was "unpleasant."
"Despite the success with the remains, this is a relationship with a lot of tension, and this shows that," Richardson told reporters after the tour.
He called the Pueblo visit "a lot of propaganda, but we're guests here."

Richardson has regularly made diplomatic trips, often on his own initiative, to a number of global hot spots. Though visits to North Korea by senior U.S. officials are rare, this was Richardson's sixth to the country.
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