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U.S. rights activist crosses into North Korea - reports (going for martyrdom; wants no rescue)
Reuters ^ | 12/26/09 | Jon Herskovitz

Posted on 12/26/2009 2:09:39 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

U.S. rights activist crosses into North Korea - reports

Jon Herskovitz, Reuters December 26, 2009, 4:00 pm Send

SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. human rights activist trying to raise global attention about the suffering of the North Korean people has crossed into the reclusive state, other activists and South Korean media said on Saturday.

There has been no comment from North Korea, which usually arrests foreign border crossers on site, or from U.S. officials.

Activists told Reuters that Robert Park, 28, had crossed into North Korea from China on Friday, while South Korea's Yonhap news agency and the Kukmin Ilbo newspaper quoted activists who went with him to the border as saying he had crossed at a sparsely patrolled point near the northeast border city of Hoeryong.

Park was quoted by activists who went with the border as shouting when he went across: "I am an American citizen. I am bringing God's love. God loves you."

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"I don't want President Obama to come and pay to get me out. But I want the North Korean people to be free," Park said on Wednesday before departing for China.


(Excerpt) Read more at nz.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asia; christian; humanrights; martyrdom; nkorea; northkorea; robertkim; robertpark
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Whatever happens, he’ll be fine, he’s traveling in the company of the Holy Spirit. I expect we’ll hear from him again.


41 posted on 12/26/2009 6:07:38 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"I don't want President Obama to come and pay to get me out

Good thing, the man-boy president isn't about all that. Wouldn't surprise me if next year Kim Jong-il(l) is on his Christmas tree.
42 posted on 12/26/2009 6:15:38 PM PST by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Not to bring everyone down over the holidays, but this guy is incredibly brave ... and will probably end up in a camp, which in North Korea is a hell like no other.

This YouTube video is the first-hand account of one of the rare escapees from one of the camps. It’s absolutely horrifying, and please don’t take the “Viewer Discretion” warning lightly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FZMwoY7DyM

I don’t know what the answer is to liberating North Korea from a madman, if there even is an answer. Just knowing that this is going on right now, while I’m having my nice holiday break, is physically nauseating.

I know I’m nowhere near as brave as Robert Park, so I wish him the best.


43 posted on 12/26/2009 6:35:01 PM PST by liberty_rules_in_the_USA
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To: TigerLikesRooster
He's right you know but,

It's pointless to throw yourself in front of a juggernaut.

44 posted on 12/26/2009 6:36:39 PM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I don't want President Obama to come and pay to get me out

Don't worry, you don't have enough melanin to even begin to register on Zero's compensation radar.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

45 posted on 12/26/2009 6:36:39 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

How embarrassing.


46 posted on 12/26/2009 6:38:03 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: RoadTest
"I’m in agreement with this man. North Koreans are eating grass (when it’s summer) while their “leaders” dine sumptuously.",

Sounds like the current White House....
47 posted on 12/26/2009 7:00:24 PM PST by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Are starvations really taking place in such numbers?


48 posted on 12/26/2009 8:15:00 PM PST by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Park was quoted by activists who went with the border as shouting when he went across: "I am an American citizen. I am bringing God's love. God loves you." ... "I don't want President Obama to come and pay to get me out. But I want the North Korean people to be free," Park said on Wednesday before departing for China.
Thanks TigerLikesRooster.
49 posted on 12/26/2009 8:39:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: don-o
You got a lotta nerve calling this brave man names.

Brave is doing something that you think will have a positive outcome. This guy is just stupid. He is no better than those who want to commit suicide by cop.

50 posted on 12/26/2009 8:42:01 PM PST by killjoy (Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
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To: MarMema
The figure 7 million, in my opinion, is the number of people ‘in serious state of starvation.’ I don't think it means that such a large number of people are actually dead in N. Korea.
51 posted on 12/26/2009 10:10:47 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

In Jesus’ Name, Amen!


52 posted on 12/26/2009 10:55:25 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I can understand the mixed feelings expressed on this thread, it hardly seems rational, but you cannot deny that his heart is in the right place and that he is a brave man.

Godspeed Robert Park.

53 posted on 12/26/2009 10:59:13 PM PST by americanophile (Merry Christmas!)
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To: americanophile
I have always believed that some unexpected accident(s) will topple N. Korean regime. So I am not really hard on Robert Park.
54 posted on 12/26/2009 11:07:23 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: americanophile
That is, his action is an unexpected development with little downside since his family won't push for his release.
55 posted on 12/26/2009 11:09:09 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Evolution at work, huh?


56 posted on 12/26/2009 11:18:43 PM PST by cranked
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To: skr

Yes, Amen!


57 posted on 12/26/2009 11:58:43 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If we ever forget that we're one nation under God,then we'll be a nation gone under.")
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To: killjoy

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”


58 posted on 12/27/2009 4:08:34 AM PST by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is in Iraq.)
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To: TV Dinners

“North Koreans are eating grass (when it’s summer) while their “leaders” dine sumptuously.”,

Sounds like the current White House....”

But not he current American people. These North Korean people are literally starving to death. We don’t know what that’s like. The poor in America are equal to the affluent in many other countries.


59 posted on 12/27/2009 4:35:19 AM PST by RoadTest (Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3)
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To: killjoy
Brave is doing something that you think will have a positive outcome. This guy is just stupid. He is no better than those who want to commit suicide by cop.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was criticized by Karl Barth and other members of the Confessing Church when he went to London. They thought he should stay in Germany and fight National Socialism. From England, Bonhoeffer was offered a position studying non-violent resistance in Ghandi's asham. He went back to Germany to preach in the underground church instead. In 1939 he went to New York but once again returned to Germany. He knew what was in store for him. He was on the Gestapo's hit list

Richard Wurmbrandt headed the underground church in Romania. He didn't have to do that. There have been thousands we know of and many more Christians who simply disappeared preaching God's word in Nazi Germany and under communist regimes.

During the American Revolution, Princeton and other colleges were seminaries and hot beds of sedition. The revolution was preached from the pulpit. All these Christians were committing treason and subjected to being hanged by the neck. Then there were the abolitionists...lots of them went into the fire too.. This is what Christians do. I'm surprised at the criticism on this forum

60 posted on 12/27/2009 4:38:57 AM PST by Brugmansian
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