According to the article he was hunting on someone elses property on someone else's tree stand. Heck, think about it. You have a bunch of armed men squabling with an armed squatter who probably doesn't speak english. A definite recipe to disaster.
"Hey Ned, what's Kim Jong Il doing in your tree-stand with the SKS?"
Nope. He speaks English.
He was in the national guard and speaks English quite well.