Posted on 04/23/2017 11:37:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Though no details on why he was detained have been released, the detention comes at a time of unusually heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea
North Korea has detained a U.S. citizen, officials said Sunday, bringing to three the number of Americans now being held there.
The man, identified by The Associated Press as Tony Kim, who also goes by his Korean name Kim Sang-duk, was detained on Saturday, according to Park Chan-mo, the chancellor of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.
Park said Kim, who is 58, taught accounting at the university for about a month. He said Kim was detained by officials as he was trying to leave the country from Pyongyang's international airport. A university spokesman said he was trying to leave with his wife on a flight to China.
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Why the heck are these people in North Korea? Are some of them spies?
Game on!
Why go there at all? There are some places in the world I would simply be afraid of going, and North Korea is one of them.
One American being held is a college kid, who was trying to steal a propaganda banner. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor by North Korea. Yes he should not have touched anything; he should not have tried to steal the banner. But punishment should fit the crime. North Korea views small transgressions as major crimes against the state.
My gut doesn’t think spies as much as naive do-gooders or Commie sympathizers.
Regardless, Fat Boy appears to be collecting a stable of hostages and/or human shields.
These token Americans captured within North Korea should be ignored as any sort of bargaining concern.
If we bomb NK and they die, it's okay.
Nope, NK ain’t no TJ,,,and President Trump ain’t no obama, Prince of Fools....WATCH...Tik, Tok, Tik TOK!!!!!
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Top 10 list of places I have no desire to visit:
1 (tied) North Korea, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia
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7. Turkey
8. Most of the rest of Africa
9. Egypt
10.Pakistan
And I have been to three of them!
Not justifying his sentence, but this 'kid' was probably an ardent leftist who went there to visit the socialist paradise. I'm sure the thought his trophy banner would have looked wonderful in his dorm room. The kid is an idiot - they might have given him one if he told them he was a supporter and wanted to display it back home. Good bet his parents are leftists too and fully supported and even financed his trip to the paradise that is North Korea.
A non-CIA, special forces or diplomat US citizen in NK who is imprisoned - not our problem, let the NK keep them, we don’t want them back. Each is one less commie in our country.
Nope. The article mentions the others. This one's the dumbest kind of liberal there is (Civilian Class), the "we're all just people" kind:
"Last year, Otto Warmbier, then a 21-year-old University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in prison after he confessed to trying to steal a propaganda banner."
If I had Trump's ear, I'd advise him to not expend a minute of time trying to get this dope back.
I am surprised US citizens can even be there. I assumed it was like Cuba used to be, off limits for US citizens. Aren't we still technically at war with them?
Willingly???
I was repeatedly told I volunteered for that when I went into the Army.
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