A friend on Capitol Hill emails a brief dispatch from the Associated Press reporting that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il received a gift from a visiting delegation of congressional staff members.
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is Howard Berman. Not surprisingly, Claudia Rosett has more, though she has not gotten word from Berman’s staff confirming or denying the gift. A few questions: What was the gift? If it came from Berman, why did he give it? What was the delegation of congressional staffers doing in North Korea? Did the State Department arrange the trip? UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal has a brief item on the Democratic gift in today’s paper.
So in the past week Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi credits the reduction in Iraq violence to the “goodwill of the Iranians” and the Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is giving gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. Barack Obama is a hardliner by comparison. He just wants to negotiate with leaders of rogue states.
