Wolf Blitzer just continues to be an embarrassment and still doesn’t realize that him and Bill Richardson were nothing more than pawns in North Korea games of brinkmanship and carrots in return for false promises:

I think it’s fair to say we all had an eye-opening experience. It was a roller coaster of emotions — ranging from real fear of war on the Korean Peninsula to relief that the North had stepped back from the brink and even accepted some of Richardson’s proposals.

Maybe Richardson had played a positive role in calming down his hosts, including the chief nuclear negotiator, First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan; the new Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ri Yong Ho; the military officer in charge of the armistice and Demilitarized Zone, Major Gen. Pak Rim Su; and the country’s Vice President, Kim Yong Dae.

We arrived convinced the Korean Peninsula was on the verge of a war, the worst crisis since the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.  [CNN]

Did Wolf Blitzer forget about the Blue House being attacked by North Korean commandos trying to kill the South Korean President?  Or how about Operation Paul Bunyan when two American officers were brutally murdered by the North Koreans that almost led to war.  Finally what about the 1993 nuclear crisis which was the nearest term event that almost led to war.  The recent provocations by the North Koreans are undoubtedly serious but the peninsula is not  as near to war as these prior events.

Wolf also still hasn’t learned that this trip was nothing but a staged show for the North Koreans using them both as pawns as part of the brinkmanship and carrots approach to extracting concessions from the US and South Korea.

What we also learn from this article is that as I have been stating repeatedly, Richardson is a willing pawn of the North Koreans because he loves the media attention:

This was my first visit to North Korea, though I had been to South Korea, the DMZ and China. When Richardson called me and asked me if I wanted to go with him, I immediately accepted and am glad I did.

If Richardson was doing this trip out of a sense of civic duty why bring the media other than he wanted to promote himself?

This made me want to gag:

I was apprehensive going in, worried about whether I would actually get out. I was concerned that they would shut the airport if war erupted, and I would be stuck inside North Korea. I even began wondering about the prospects of driving across the North Korea-China border if necessary. Was that even doable?

Gees, Wolf you are so brave.

Here is something else that made me gag:

Later, when it looked like the North Koreans would retaliate for South Korea’s live-fire military exercise, I thought of these girls and all the young people I had seen in North Korea. They seemed so vulnerable, and I worried about their fate if there were a war. I’m not embarrassed to say I got sentimental and emotional worrying about them and their counterparts in South Korea.

Here is how he ends the article:

Did I mention that I’m worried about the children?

What is it with liberals and them always using children as their excuse for everything?  If Wolf really cared about children he would be reporting about the children stuck in the North Korean concentration camps along with the tens of thousand of other North Koreans imprisoned there.  He would also be reporting about the hundreds of thousands of people, many of them children that have starved death and continue to starve to death in North Korea because of the regime he seems so eager to prop up.

So why is why is Wolf Blitzer so eager to be a mouth piece for the Kim Jong-il regime?  Well he provides that answer in the article, future access:

The North Koreans pointed out this was an especially tense time. They said I could come back on another occasion and perhaps visit these places.By the way, 2012 is going to be a huge year for North Korea. That’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung. The North Koreans are preparing major events. Since they invited me back, I might go back then; maybe even sooner though I hope it won’t be to cover a war.

Considering how CNN covered up Iraqi atrocities in order to keep future access I guess we shouldn’t be surprised Wolf Blitzer could care less about North Korean atrocities as well.  I’m sure he justifies this to himself by saying he is doing it for the children.