Even North Korea doesn’t want Gore
![In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, seated left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, seated right, in Pyonggyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. Others are unidentified. Former US resident Bill Clinton met Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on the first day of a surprise visit to Pyongyang, holding](https://thumb.spokesman.com/nZtXYizoPl09Uqzm0U_8TJVQPT0=/810x0/media.spokesman.com/photos/2009/08/04/NORTH_KOREA_JOURNALISTS_HEL_9.jpg)
You know this photo is starting grow on me:-) However, there's always more to the story isn't there?
"Bill Clinton undertook the mission, a senior administration official said, only after the North assured the White House that the reporters would be freed and allowed to return home with the former president. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to detail the back-channel negotiations, also said the north rejected Gore as a suitable emissary." More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_nkorea_analysis