Posted on 11/30/2013 5:31:18 AM PST by Uncle Chip
A video has been released by the North Korean government showing detained American veteran Merrill Newman, 85, admitting to being 'guilty' of crimes including killing innocent civilians when he was a soldier in the Korean War.
Newman, who has not been heard from since he was detained on October 26, is seen reading a four-page hand-scribbled letter on camera in an undisclosed location in the video released on Saturday.
The veteran from California looks uneasy in the video, and with shaking hands apologizes for what he supposedly did 60 years ago.
‘I realize that I cannot be forgiven for my offensives but I beg for pardon on my knees by apologizing for my offensives sincerely toward the DPRK government...
In the video, which was seemingly filmed on November 9, Newman 'admits' to being ‘guilty of a long list of inedible crimes’ against the North Korean government, including the deaths of 50 North Korean soldiers under his command.
‘According to my order they collected information of the KPA and attacked the communication system and killed 3 innocent operators, delayed the munitions supply using explosives obtained from attacking the mine and they attacked the KPA and harassing operations of the rear base 10 times in the Hwanghae Province Area,’ he reads.
‘As I killed so many civilians and KPA soldiers and destroyed strategic objects in the DPRK during the Korean War, I committed indelible offensive acts against the DPRK government and Korean people,’.....
It is not known whether Newman was forced to write the letter or whether he did so at his own free will........
Merrill Newman's traveling companion, former Stanford University professor Bob Hamrdla, was allowed to return and later told ABC News that it must have been a 'terrible misunderstanding'.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Moral of the story: stay the hell out of Korea.
Yep.
This guys family and friends should have stopped him.
He would have been all right if he stayed in Seoul and Pusan. How did he get north of the DMZ?
This falls into the “What The Hell Was He Thinking” category.
Why would anyone in his right mind want to visit North Korea???
“It is not known whether Newman was forced to write the letter or whether he did so at his own free will..”
He was forced. In north korea nothing is done of anybodys free will.
How low can the moral of Americans still possessing functioning brains sink?
A government that allows this embarrassing evil to continue without firing a salvo into this pathetic, starving nation is criminal. The evil Obama administration should be ripped out by its very roots, but the complicit RINOs will never act against this phony.
America is now officially a failed nation that has almost reached the bottom!
Thanks gutless Republicrats for your inane inaction. You all deserve whatever you get out of this treachery.
Time for a Dennis Rodman intervention.
From China, I think.
Some kind of “tour.”
At least he remembers his POW training well enough to show it’s a forced confession.
Like the young idiots who decided to travel into Iran a few years ago....WHY GO THERE???
It is not known whether Newman was forced to write the letter or whether he did so at his own free will........
Surely they jest.
I long for a time when a president would have notified the world that NK had one hour to release the US citizen. At one hour and one minute a nuke will be coming your way.
Not that there ever was such a time. For some reason we’ve let NK get away with a lot of stuff since 1953. Remember the Pueblo.
Because it’s there, and so few others get to do it. I’ve considered it on occasion. Family and friends talk me out of it each time, though.
Not to worry. 0bama has a fresh supply of red magic markers to draw some of his much feared red lines. This man will be released today.
Sorry, but I still remember the photographs of the ditch with US Soldiers with their hands tied behind their backs, all gunned down and left there. Who wants to confess to that Great Leader?
As a proud xenophobe I see nothing of value outside the US of A and less and less of value in the US of A as our government allows...no INVITES, the worst of the outside world in.
“Merrill Newman’s traveling companion, former Stanford University professor Bob Hamrdla, was allowed to return and later told ABC News that it must have been a ‘terrible misunderstanding’.....”
Misunderstanding my eye! The professor has a misunderstanding of Communism and Tyrants.
Amen to that.
He was either taking propaganda to NK or going to bring propaganda back from NK. And now the letter. His son better do some soul searching about not stopping this.
‘guilty of a long list of inedible crimes’
Huh? Inedible crimes, really?
I think the Norks are so starved everything is about food, even crime.
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