I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
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According to Governor Bill Richardson, North Korea is prepared to reengage the United States on talks about their nuclear program. Richardson is hosting two North Korean diplomats in Santa Fe to — ostensibly — talk about renewable energy. This came after talks with two North Korean diplomats which the governor’s office called “productive.”
“The delegation indicated that North Korea is ready for a new dialogue with the United States regarding the nuclear issue,” Richardson is quoted as saying in a statement. “The question is whether to proceed with face-to-face bilateral talks, as the North Korea prefer, or to utilize the six-party framework that the United States has advocated.”
“The North Koreans clearly want bilateral talks and not the six-party framework,” Richardson said.
The six-party talks are discussions that not only include the United States and North Korea, but also China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
“I got a sense that temperatures have really cooled down since President Clinton’s visit,” Richardson said, referring to former President Bill Clinton’s trip to North Korea where he successfully freed two journalists held under house arrest in North Korea.
Clinton and Richardson have had a frosty relationship ever since Richardson, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and the secretary of energy under Clinton, backed Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary over rival Hillary Clinton.
