SEOUL: US politician Bill Richardson and Google chairman Eric Schmidt visited North Korea’s largest library and paid respects to its late leaders on the third day of their visit yesterday, the state news agency said.
Richardson has described the trip, which attracted criticism from Washington, as a “private humanitarian mission” and the secretive nation’s official media has released few details about their activities.
Richardson, a former New Mexico governor and an ex-ambassador to the United Nations, has been to the North several times in the past two decades and has helped negotiate the release of detained US citizens.
Kenneth Bae, an American of Korean descent, is being held in N. Korea and his son contacted Richardson to ask for his help, the latter said last week.
Late North Korean leaders applauded
