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Google exec to visit N. Korea

Published: January 03. 2013 4:00AM PST

SAN FRANCISCO — Eric Schmidt, Google’s ambassador in chief, is going where few Internet executives have gone: North Korea.

Google’s executive chairman will take part in a private trip led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, sources told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

North Korea does not have diplomatic relations with the United States, and it has some of the tightest restrictions of any country on citizens’ access to the Internet.

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