The so-called “Google delegation” to North Korea, a group of American citizens including Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who are currently visiting the authoritarian country, have called for North Korea’s government to allow more of its citizens access to the Internet and mobile phones, Richardson told the Associated Press in a report on Wednesday. Richardson further said that he and his delegation called upon North Korea to suspend missile tests.
The American delegation, which arrived Monday, will be departing on Thursday. The State Department previously called the trip “unhelpful,” but Richardson said it was a tour by private citizens and not being undertaken in any official capacity by Google.
(H/T: Techmeme)
