Posted on 09/18/2014 7:23:06 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
(LEAD) U.S. man caught trying to swim to N. Korea
2014/09/17 10:49
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Yonhap) -- A young American man has been caught trying to swim across a river border into North Korea, a government source said Wednesday.
The man was arrested by Marine sentries at around 11:55 p.m. on Tuesday while he was swimming across the Han River, which borders with North Korea, the source said.
The river cuts through the South Korean capital of Seoul and its adjacent county of Gimpo into the Yellow Sea.
During an interrogation following the arrest, the U.S. citizen of Arabic descent said "I was trying to go to North Korea in order to meet with supreme leader Kim Jong-un," according to the source.
The U.S. citizen, in his late 20s or early 30s, was undergoing questioning by state intelligence agents over his motives, he added.
The latest incident marks the first case of a U.S. citizen trying to enter the North through the border area in Gimpo, according to the source.
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Let him go.
I hope U.S. spooks have up-close and personal meeting with him.
Sounds like he has a future in the Democratic Party.
The guy sort of stuck out, since everyone else swims in the opposite direction.
Why did the US Marine interrupt this idiot’s act of foolishness?I would have liked for him to be sentenced to 12-years Hard Labor!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would have waved bye bye and gone on about my day.
That’s one LESS OBONGO-VOTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and they stopped him, why?
PERFECTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My thoughts exactly. ISIS recruit wanting to sell his US “insider” cell services to Kimmy?
Jihadi? Spy? Once rigorous interrogation and investigation assure he just an idiot, arrange an exchange.
The amazing thing - he started in Los Angeles
Don’t tell me he want come home
Respectfully, do we know this was a U.S. Marine? My thought is that it was more likely a ROK Marine. Thank you.
That’s Korean Marines.
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