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To my above, will a small, backwater village in rural USA know the difference or endeavor to find out just where these dudes are from?

I'd recognize a North Korean-Pyongyang dialect of English quicker than "Jack Robinson" being said. Well, (Sorry Montana-ites), let's git some feds up there to thoroughly interrogate ASAP.

Not overkill to suggest we really follow up on this one. I recall N.K. terrorist-bomber Miss Kim Hyung Hee who was detained in Dubai, and they thought she was Japanese for several days....I have heard her "Japanese" language on TV (which she learned at spy school in P'yang) and it is clearly "Korean". The Dubai-ites never knew the difference until the Korean and Japanese embassy interrogators arrived on the scene.

To my above, will a small, backwater village in rural USA know the difference or endeavor to find out just where these dudes are from?
I'd recognize a North Korean-Pyongyang dialect of English quicker than "Jack Robinson" being said. Well, (Sorry Montana-ites), let's git some feds up there to thoroughly interrogate ASAP.
Not overkill to suggest we really follow up on this one. I recall N.K. terrorist-bomber Miss Kim Hyung Hee who was detained in Dubai, and they thought she was Japanese for several days....I have heard her "Japanese" language on TV (which she learned at spy school in P'yang) and it is clearly "Korean". The Dubai-ites never knew the difference until the Korean and Japanese embassy interrogators arrived on the scene.

Note too that there's a sizable relocated Hmong Lao community in and around Missoula. While I seriously doubt the Koreans could have fooled those of the Lao community, they might have successfully used those recent American newcomers as camouflage or cover. And it's also possible that one or more of the Missoula Hmong could have been a target.

There's also a Hmong community around Winina, MN. It might be worth someone keeping an eye out for undocumented Koreans there as well.

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Interesting. All I can say is, I hope some Feds with some knowledge of the Korean peninsula (and preferably Feds of a Korean ethnic background to pick up on the language thingee you mentioned) get a crack at all involved (this is exactly the kind of commonsense criticism of events leading up to 9/11 -- remember the first WTC bombing, where all the Arabic documents seized off Nosair and the Kalifa Refugee Center months before went untranslated...?)

NK gets tagged with any terrorist activities against the United States at this point and, well, that will be game over. But the Juche star has never been known for its brightness.