Author Topic: North Korea detains American (Read 1129 times)

Rman · « **on:** December 28, 2009, 10:47:42 PM »

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December 29, 2009
North Korea Detains American
By CHOE SANG-HUN

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Tuesday that it had detained an American citizen who the government said had illegally entered the reclusive country from China.

The brief dispatch by the North’s official news agency, K.C.N.A., did not identify the person, who it said was under interrogation by the authorities. It said the intruder crossed the river border into North Korea on Thursday.

An American missionary from Tucson entered North Korea from China on Friday. The missionary, Robert Park, 28, had said he intended to persuade the North’s leader, Kim Jong-il, to release political prisoners and that he hoped to get arrested to bring attention to his cause, according to human rights activists in Seoul.

It was not possible to determine whether the person arrested by the North was Mr. Park.

Mr. Park was carrying a Bible and a letter urging the Mr. Kim Jong-il to release all political prisoners from the country’s notorious concentration camps, the activists said.

“I am coming here to deliver God’s love,” he said as he crossed the frozen river border, according to Jo Sung-rae, head of Pax Koreana, a conservative civic group based in Seoul. “God loves you.”

Before leaving Seoul for China on Wednesday to enter North Korea, Mr. Park said he wanted to be arrested to help bring international attention to the North Koreans’ suffering, South Korean activists said. He said he did not want to be released until the North shut down its prison camps, they said.

Hope he's released. Brave, yet naive of him if he did cross the border intentionally.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #1 on:** December 28, 2009, 11:22:24 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2 on:** December 28, 2009, 11:23:34 PM »

God changed his mind, he doesn't love North Korea anymore.

T234 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 29, 2009, 12:13:27 AM »

GILLOD NO

Diunx · « **Reply #4 on:** December 29, 2009, 12:30:01 AM »

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #5 on:** December 29, 2009, 12:51:46 AM »

LOOKS LIKE BANNING GLEN SHINOBI FROM EB FINALLY UNHINGED HIM ALL THE WAY

Rman · « **Reply #6 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:05:01 AM »

Was he banned?

Diunx · « **Reply #7 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:07:21 AM »

Willco banned him while jerking off in the back of the classroom.

Ichirou · « **Reply #8 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:14:40 AM »

He's taking a week off to reflect on the insanity of choosing the last hour of Aliens as his all-time favorite hour of cinema.

drew · « **Reply #9 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:15:52 AM »

Quote from: Ichirou on December 29, 2009, 01:14:40 AM

He's taking a week off to reflect on the insanity of choosing the last hour of Aliens as his all-time favorite hour of cinema.

please explain yourself or another banning might be in order

Ichirou · « **Reply #10 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:25:09 AM »

I know my rights!

GilloD · « **Reply #11 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:30:37 AM »

Quote from: T234 on December 29, 2009, 12:13:27 AM

GILLOD NO

My pastor is actually friends with this guy. I guess a lot of people in Seoul knew him- He was famous for like spending all of his money on coats and then walking around and giving them to homeless people. He seemed like a really great guy, maybe a little nutty. It'll be interesting to see what happens next. I can't imagine NK being able to use him as a bargaining chip, nor does it really suit their needs to be known for brutalizing a missionary. Maybe they'll use him as a go between? Dunno.

South Koreans are hugely blaise about NK. They're most just embarrassed.

drew · « **Reply #12 on:** December 29, 2009, 01:47:34 AM »

i hope something bad happens to him, maybe that will teach you not to be such a vice reading bleeding heart librul

chronovore · « **Reply #13 on:** December 29, 2009, 02:22:46 AM »

Hopefully he'll be released, but he may just go do it again if his main goal is the shutdown of all the prison camps. Or maybe ronery Kim Jong Il will find the love of god in his heart and oblige.

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brawndolicious · « **Reply #14 on:** December 29, 2009, 05:29:36 AM »

This is all Willco's fault you know.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2009, 09:06:27 AM »

Delusional people work in mysterious ways.

Tauntaun · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2009, 10:30:11 AM »

Powerslave · « **Reply #17 on:** December 29, 2009, 10:32:14 AM »

comin' again to save the mohfuckin' dayYEAH

Donono · « **Reply #18 on:** December 29, 2009, 03:00:51 PM »

Bill Clinton's already Solid Snakin' through NK.

chronovore · « **Reply #19 on:** December 30, 2009, 12:03:14 AM »

Quote from: Donono on December 29, 2009, 03:00:51 PM

Bill Clinton's already Solid Snakin' through NK.

That's wayyy too sleazy a visual for me right now.

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