Eric Schmidt's daughter lifts lid on 'very strange' North Korea
by The Telegraph
Jan 22, 2013 | 595 views | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, center right, talks to an unidentified man as he is surrounded by journalists after arriving at Beijing Capital International Airport from Pyongyang, in Beijing Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. Schmidt is urging North Korea to shed its self-imposed isolation and allow its citizens to use the Internet or risk being left behind economically. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, center right, talks to an unidentified man as he is surrounded by journalists after arriving at Beijing Capital International Airport from Pyongyang, in Beijing Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. Schmidt is urging North Korea to shed its self-imposed isolation and allow its citizens to use the Internet or risk being left behind economically. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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In a blog posting at the weekend titled "It might not get weirder than this", Sophie Schmidt provided a candid take on the controversial three-day trip earlier this month that was criticised by the US government.

Miss Schmidt, 19, had accompanied her father on the visit as part of a delegation led by Bill Richardson, the former US ambassador to the United Nations.

On their return, the two men answered a few questions about the nature of the visit, but Miss Schmidt's informal account was in many ways far more revealing.

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