Crisis Negotiator Blog by Jeff Thompson
“The blame is theirs. The lesson for us is that America’s hostage negotiation strategy is broken.”
The following op-ed from Bill Richardson, former governor and US Ambassador to the UN, shares his thoughts that are worth reading and coming to your own conclusions. There’s some interesting overlaps with our work in crisis/hostage negotiation, especially in terrorist incidents. Specifically check out the last section of the snippet below:
Otto Warmbier was laid to rest June 22 by his loving family in their town outside of Cincinnati, nine days after he was brought home in a coma after 17 months of imprisonment in North Korea. The North Korean government described him as a prisoner of war, so by their own definition, his death is their absolute responsibility, pursuant to the Geneva Conventions. That the North Korean government kept him in an unresponsive state without proper medical assistance constitutes a crime in terms of international law and flouts common decency.
The blame is theirs. The lesson for us is that America’s hostage negotiation strategy is broken.
Read more from Bill Richardson’s op-ed at the Washington Post [HERE]
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