CEO Eric Schmidt: Another Google Update Regarding North Korea

“The visit has been criticized for appearing to hijack U.S. diplomacy and boost Pyongyang’s profile after North Korea’s latest, widely condemned rocket launch.”

It will be interesting to see if any good comes from this trip. While there is no doubt that Schmidt, Richardson and the rest of the traveling party has good intentions, nobody really knows where things are headed.

Richardson was quoted in an interview with the Associated Press as saying:

“The citizens of the DPRK (North Korea) will be better off with more cellphones and an active Internet. Those are the … messages we’ve given to a variety of foreign policy officials, scientists” and government officials.”

Although this trip by Schmidt and others is not sponsored by Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), the search giant continues to be pulled into the conversation. What are your thoughts on this?

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