Posted on 04/23/2017 5:06:25 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Chinese American..worked at a University in China..was there for about a month working on relief efforts
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Oh boy, little covered incident that could be dry kindling.
Prayers up.
correction...Korean American not Chinese American
detained at airport when trying to leave
NYT
I don’t know if being an American in Korea is dumb or brave.
It is certainly irresponsible. A person traveling in North Korea simply provides potential hostages. Once a person enters North Korea (or Iran or a dozen other hellholes) they abandon the aegis of American diplomacy.
I admire missionaries. they know what they are getting into. I have no sympathy for anyone else who visits NK.
Liberals are pissed over Trump successfully gaining release of one of our people from Turkey after Ostupid did NOTHING about it for yrs. This is an attempt to change the subject so they can now point to his “failure” in obtaining this prisoners release.
Why is this fellow in North Korea? The only American who should go there is Dennis Rodman.
The land of the madman.
There are certainly a lot of other obvious questions that need to be asked beyond “a relief worker” connection.
Third U.S. citizen detained in North Korea: sources
2017/04/23 12:59
SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- A former Korean-American professor was arrested in North Korea last week, becoming the third U.S. citizen to be detained by the communist country as of late, according to sources Sunday.
The U.S. citizen, identified only by his surname Kim, was arrested by North Korean authorities on Friday at Pyongyang International Airport on his way out of the country, said the sources, who asked not to be named.
Kim, a former professor at the Yanbian University of Science and Technology in his late 50s, has been engaged in aid and relief programs to North Korea.
He reportedly was in the North for about a month to discuss relief activities. The reason for his arrest was not clear.
The detainment is the latest in a series of American nationals being arrested in North Korea. Two other U.S. citizens -- college student Otto Warmbier and Korean-American pastor Kim Dong-chul -- are also currently detained in the North after being sentenced to long prison terms for what Pyongyang calls subversive acts against the country.
Ahn Chan-il, director of the World North Korea Research Center in Seoul, said that the North "seems to be intending to use professor Kim as leverage in negotiations" amid the current bad relations between the two countries.
The National Intelligence Service, South Korea's spy agency, said it "was not aware" of Kim's arrest.
Since 2009, over 10 U.S. citizens have been detained in North Korea on charges of anti-state and other unspecified crimes. The widespread view has been that Pyongyang uses the detentions as bargaining chips in its negotiations with Washington.
“The only American who should go there is Dennis Rodman”
I disagree. All those Hollywood celebrities that promised to leave the country if Trump were elected should go there too.
Stupid. Should lose US citizenship for going into North Korea. Stupid enough to go in, for whatever reason, it’s his problem and not a single American should be risked on his behalf.
Pleased as peaches you are nowhere close to the decision making behind foreign policy
Conflict between a very sympathetic conscience - go help the needy - and very good rational judgement - likely candidate for abduction, imprisonment and ransom bait as political hostage.
“Once a person enters North Korea (or Iran or a dozen other hellholes) they abandon the aegis of American diplomacy. “
In the 19th century citizenship meant something. Britain went to war with Theodore of Ethiopia (an expensive undertaking) to free some British subjects being wrongfully held.
In the 1890s, when Spanish troops in Cuba were about to execute a man, the British and American consuls went to the execution site and placed their respective flags over the man.
The execution did not take place.
Now — civis Britannicus sum, or civis Americanus sum — so what? Your government won’t defend (or at least, not very much)...
Poor analogy. The American people should not be on the hook to pay ransom for people who foolishly expose themselves to unnecessary and ill-advised risks, no matter how noble or urgent they believe their missions to be.
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