Reporters granted rare visit with Richardson
(NEWSER) - North Korea has a deadline: For years, it's promised that an age of prosperity will begin in 2012, the 100th anniversary of Kim Il-Sung's birth. With 18 months to go, two journalists accompanying Bill Richardson on an unprecedented trip to North Korea found that the government will be hard-pressed to achieve that goal, though its desire to do so may be behind a few recent conciliatory measures undertaken by Pyongyang. Sharon LaFraniere reports on her trip to the Dear Leader's domain in the New York Times . More»
