Former special envoy Robert King said this, he is in the middle of the below photo with John Kerry.
Ex-US envoy calls Pyongyang 'corrupt mafia state'
Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and State Department special envoy Robert King, center, listen as North Korean human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk delivers remarks during an event on human rights in North Korea at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 in New York. AP-Yonhap
A former U.S. envoy on Tuesday slammed North Korea as a "corrupt mafia state" after it emerged that the regime billed the U.S. $2 million dollars for the hospital care of an American detainee in 2017.
Ambassador Robert King, who served as the State Department's special envoy for North Korean human rights issues from 2009 to 2017, issued a blistering attack on the North in the wake of last week's report by The Washington Post on the bill, which has since been confirmed by former and current U.S. officials.
"Why does North Korea detain U.S. citizens?" King wrote in a commentary for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Why does it engage in the petty thuggery of arresting and detaining U.S. citizens and charging some Americans huge hospital bills for medical treatment that was required because of how they were treated while they were imprisoned?"
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Checking story, they call him "Ambassador Robert King"? So, he is still in some capacity with the US Government? I figured, he'd be an ex-ambassador, still reading.
