I'm mugging for the camera on the way back from Pyongyang in 2005. In the foreground is Pennsylvania state Senator Stewart Greenleaf (with his head in his hands). I think I wore him out. I'd convinced him to come to make a trip with me to try and rescue the USS Pueblo, a spy ship the North Koreans captured in 1968. The idea was to launch the senator's run for governor with him triumphantly bringing our ship back to the U.S. My buddy Ambassador Han betrayed me, though, and the whole plan failed miserably. I nearly punched out a mid-ranking military guy while we were on the ship. On the brighter side, we visited an orphanage in Pyongyang that had benefitted from the senator's and my efforts to get millions of dollars in humanitarian aid sent to North Korea.