Kim Jung - Un is on a roll : first he launches a successful - ish rocket and enter the 20th century . Now , Google ’s top detent is pay his broken kingdom a sojourn to let the cat out of the bag Internet in a countrywhere nobody can use it . Uh .
The AP reportsSchmidt ’s visit will take blank space “ as early as this calendar month , ” and that former Governor ( and experienced North Korea negotiator ) Bill Richardson will escort the Googler in Chief . And what are they going to do there ? Who knows :
It was not immediately exculpated who Schmidt and Richardson ask to touch in North Korea , a body politic that does not have diplomatical relations with the United States . North Korea has almost no stage business with companies in the U.S. , which has ostracise the meaning of North Korean - made good .
North Korea is crap inadequate — most ca n’t afford a computer . There ’s zero broadband availability unless you happen to be the dictator ’s chum . Somecitizens have n’t even get wind of the Internet before . But if Schmidt could manage to collapse afford the country as a fresh market , Google would have over 24 million potential new customers . Still , the odds of that are scurvy : North Korea ’s human-centered record name China appear like Finland , and exemption of thought , let alone exemption of oral communication , are well-nigh non - existant . YouTube on North Korean screens is unimaginable under the current regime .
So will Schmidt and Richardson tag end - squad Kim Jung - Un into popular enlightenment ? Of course not . But the flimsy business potency is probably worth the plane ticket . [ AP ]
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