The U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and former envoy to South Korea Christopher Hill will retire from public service and become dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver from September. The university made the announcement on July 1, praising HillÂ’s 30-year diplomatic career.
After serving as the U.S. ambassador to Poland and South Korea, Hill was promoted to the post of Assistant Secretary of State in 2005. As the head of the U.S. delegation to six-party talks with North Korea, he was key player behind the Sept. 19, 2005 statement of principles whereby North Korea agreed to "complete and verifiable" denuclearization and other agreements which at the time looked like breakthroughs.
| Nice going. No follow-through and a complete weasel in testifying to Congress. |
Critics accused Hill of playing to the media and making too many concessions to the North, saying no palpable progress was made. The North has since conducted a second nuclear weapons test. |