North Korea's leader to free an imprisoned American and reduce ill-will between the two countries.Trade even up? Sounds good.
US officials have said that Jackson volunteered to travel to Pyongyang after the totalitarian state abruptly canceled the visit of a US envoy, Robert King, who aimed to free Korean-American tour operator Kenneth Bae.
Jackson said in a televised interview with CNN that he had put "high hopes" in King, but after the trip was called off, wrote a letter to North Korean leader Kim
PudgeJong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
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Mr Jackson said he told Mr Kim he would "like to meet with him face-to-face to seek to work out some mutual respect, some recognising each other's illusory sovereignty, each other's will to peace".