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Gov. Bill Richardson, who revels in the reputation he has earned as a roving international troubleshooter, was less than voluble — terse comes to mind — in his reaction today to North Korea’s missile launch over the weekend.
“I think the administration is responding appropriately, going to the United Nations,” Richardson said Monday when he was asked about what are some calling an international crisis. “We also should not forget the two Americans that are detained there. So hopefully in the next few days this issue will cool down a bit and the two Americans will be returned.”
North Korea launched a missile Sunday in order to deploy a satellite, it said. But according to published reports officials have said no new satellite was detected orbiting the earth. Many in the world’s diplomatic community fear that North Korea’s missile launching represents a step in the country’s path toward becoming able to launch intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. The North’s rocket, according to reports, flew at least 2,000 miles, doubling the range of an earlier rocket it tested in 1998 and boosting its potential to fire a long-range missile.
Hours after North Korea’s missile test, President Obama called for new United Nations sanctions and laid out a new approach to American nuclear disarmament policy — one intended to strengthen the United States and its allies in halting proliferation, the New York Times reported.
News media caught up with the governor in Santa Fe after a bill signing ceremony at the Santa Fe County Animal Shelter.
Asked how to interpret the actions of North Korea — a country familiar to Richardson, who has visited on occasion, sometimes at the behest of American presidents — Richardson waved off questions.
“I don’t want to talk about North Korea,” he said.
It was an unexpected silence from a man who likes to play on the international stage.
