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North Korea detains another American over alleged hostile acts
AP via Fox News ^ | AP

Posted on 05/07/2017 7:02:23 AM PDT by PJBankard

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea has announced it detained another American citizen over unspecified hostile acts against the country.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday that Kim Hak Song had worked for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology before he was held on Saturday.

North Korea on Wednesday announced the detention of an accounting instructor at the same university, Kim Sang Dok, for "acts of hostility aimed at overthrowing the country."

The KCNA didn't say whether the two cases are connected.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: hostages; kimsangdok; northkorea
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4th American detained and held by North Korea

The US needs to get all US Citizens.

1 posted on 05/07/2017 7:02:23 AM PDT by PJBankard
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We need to get all US Citizens out of NK, and the State Department needs to issue a travel ban.


2 posted on 05/07/2017 7:03:45 AM PDT by PJBankard
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I am surprized the hollywood leftist/protesters/journalist aren’t vacationing in NK?


3 posted on 05/07/2017 7:09:18 AM PDT by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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Translation...whenever a Westerner (particularly an American) enters North Korea as a “tourist” he/she is subject to being taken hostage if it's seen by the Fat **** in charge to be a worthwhile stunt.
4 posted on 05/07/2017 7:11:27 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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WTF are any Americans in NK!


5 posted on 05/07/2017 7:14:14 AM PDT by HChampagne (Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
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...and the State Department needs to issue a travel ban.

Don't know how old you are but I'm pretty old.One of my first passports (issued early/mid 1970s) said on one of the first pages that it was not valid for travel to several countries.I think Vietnam might have been one of them but I *know* North Korea was.

IIRC some court ruled years ago that US citizens couldn't be forbidden by the government to travel to a particular country.

6 posted on 05/07/2017 7:15:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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Anyone stupid enough to be in NK deserves what they get!!!


7 posted on 05/07/2017 7:16:31 AM PDT by ontap
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What the hell is wrong with these people? Anyone working in a country like North Korea must be so unemployable that they can only work there!

I do ot have any sympathy for them!


8 posted on 05/07/2017 7:16:35 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (He is leading us in Making America Great Again!)
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He’s a fool for working there. I lack sympathy for this individual. He seems to have collaborated with the DPNK at the very least.


9 posted on 05/07/2017 7:19:24 AM PDT by JimSEA
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This is not the victims fault.
How far can we run?
How much can we hide?
How much bullying and threats can we endure?
How much evil will we enable?
TWB


10 posted on 05/07/2017 7:23:11 AM PDT by TWhiteBear (H)
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I’m not that old. Born during the Reagan Administration.

If that is the case, I can understand that the government can’t physically stop you from traveling to that country; however, at that point the risk is completely your own and the US government will not provide assistance.


11 posted on 05/07/2017 7:24:13 AM PDT by PJBankard
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why are any US citizens in that country. They will just use them as pawns against us.


12 posted on 05/07/2017 7:25:49 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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word!


13 posted on 05/07/2017 7:30:28 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning)
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No, we don’t. Despite all the warnings, they chose to go there and continued to stay after all the latest Fat Boy stunts.


14 posted on 05/07/2017 7:32:45 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Correction:

" and the State Department a federal court needs to issue a travel ban."

15 posted on 05/07/2017 7:38:27 AM PDT by C210N
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North Korea on Wednesday announced the detention of an accounting instructor at the same university, Kim Sang Dok, for "acts of hostility aimed at overthrowing the country."

Well, to be fair, teaching economics IS a hostile act toward a communist goobermint.

16 posted on 05/07/2017 7:39:31 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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One can only hope.


17 posted on 05/07/2017 7:40:43 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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If you are a US citizen and willingly living in North Korea, you could be the stupidest person on earth.


18 posted on 05/07/2017 7:51:26 AM PDT by Eddie01
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And why are there American citizens in North Korea? Of all the places on earth to be, if you are American?


19 posted on 05/07/2017 7:53:15 AM PDT by odawg
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What possesses idiots to go to places like North Korea and Iran anyway?


20 posted on 05/07/2017 7:57:06 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Takeover - Have Big Families)
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