PA-18: GOP candidate in PA special election exaggerated his work as diplomat in North Korea:
The Republican candidate for a vacant House seat in Pennsylvania, Rick Saccone, is facing questions over his description of working as a diplomat in North Korea.
Saccone's experience during his time in North Korea would have been as “more of an observer," a former U.S. diplomat, David Lambertson, told The Guardian. Lambertson said he held the same position as Saccone at the Korea Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO).
“Rick was the American representative for the Korea Peninsula Energy Development Organization inside North Korea from December 2000 to December 2001,” a spokesman for Saccone told the publication, pushing back on the claims.
The spokesman said that Saccone “interacted daily with the North Koreans regarding the implementation of the agreed framework” and “served in a diplomatic capacity for KEDO.”
Saccone has said he lived in North Korea for a year as part of the negotiations but Kim Joong-keun, a South Korean representative who also worked with Saccone on the project, told The Guardian that Saccone’s position was shared with two or three people who each rotated in for, at most, six weeks.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/377751-saccone-campaign-defends-candidates-diplomacy-work-amid-questions
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