The U.S. government criticized Google boss plans to North Korea

WASHINGTON DC - Plans Google boss Eric Schmidt mengungjungi North Korea (North Korea) responded negatively by the U.S. State Department. Although Eric's plan as part of a humanitarian mission the U.S. politician Bill Richardson, but the U.S. government did not consider it useful.


We do not think that the timing of this visit, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told BBC page on Friday (4/1). Bill Richardson is a former governor of New Mexico who is involved in negotiations with North Korea ad-hoc over the last 20 years.

Richardson also helped the liberation efforts of U.S. citizens captured Pyongyang. Last month, North Korea arrested a U.S. citizen of Korean ancestry, Pae Jun Ho, the number of alleged crimes.

While some analysts have speculated that the visit Eric strategic reasons. Moreover, the use of the Internet in North Korea severely restricted by the government in power. Few people have access to computers and the vast majority of users only access a national intranet, not the world wide web.

I think this is part of Google's broad vision to bring the internet to the world and North Korea is the last frontier, said Peter Beck, of the Asia Foundation.

Google itself refused to comment despite confirmation of the visit Eric has appeared a few days after the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, the message new year on national television. Kim Jong-un in power since last year talking about the need for economic development and unification of the two Koreas, and warned that a confrontation will only lead to war. (Esy / JPNN)

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