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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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To: HChampagne

No kidding.


21 posted on 05/07/2017 7:58:33 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: PJBankard
And yet we airlifted at taxpayer's expense some American-Muslims out of the ME awhile back during one of their brethren's failed intifadas...
22 posted on 05/07/2017 8:10:19 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: PJBankard

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003682628


23 posted on 05/07/2017 8:10:48 AM PDT by Bogie
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To: PJBankard

Anyone who doesn’t have enough common sense to stay out of this godforsaken place deserves what they are getting. If you are in a den with rattlers sooner or later expect to be bitten.


24 posted on 05/07/2017 8:13:32 AM PDT by saintgermaine (The Time Traveler)
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To: PJBankard

Why are there American citizens in North Korea anyway?


25 posted on 05/07/2017 8:14:07 AM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: meyer

Some are actually outright kidnapped. Taken from China and held on Pyongyang against their wills


26 posted on 05/07/2017 8:17:43 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I did NOT elect liberal Democrats IVANKA and JARED to ANYTHING! (I doubt you did, too.))
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To: HChampagne

“WTF are any Americans in NK!”

Yes, and for that matter, WTF are any Americans doing in Iran? Or any other country ( say like Venezuela ) that’s being ruled by a despot who hates America.
These people are nuts, and they are needlessly creating diplomatic problems. For once and for all, the government needs to make it crystal clear when our citizens go to these places that they are on their own. Seems like teachers and those “spreading the Gospel” think that somehow their “calling” is higher than their own safety.


27 posted on 05/07/2017 8:20:26 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: C210N

“..a federal court needs to issue a travel ban.”

The can’t! And if they could, it would be another unlawful act.


28 posted on 05/07/2017 8:22:12 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: PJBankard

Not necessarily. Why are Americans even in NK?


29 posted on 05/07/2017 8:27:09 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TWhiteBear

They are not victims they are useful idiots. How special of this one to go teach at a NK university...for what good purpose?

Insanity does not require my sympathy


30 posted on 05/07/2017 8:29:38 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

That was not the case here


31 posted on 05/07/2017 8:31:04 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: PJBankard

Pretty stupid to go to North Korea.


32 posted on 05/07/2017 9:09:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Leep
I'm surprized the hollywood leftist/protesters/journalists aren't vacationing in NK?

Yes, it's where all your stupidest, silliest, most dishonest & treacherous class of people go to kick up their cloven hooves!

33 posted on 05/07/2017 9:15:15 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: ontap
#7: "Anyone stupid enough to be in NK deserves what they get!!!"

Amen. No sympathy. The risk involved is hardly a state secret. If travel to Cuba was banned, why not North Korea?

34 posted on 05/07/2017 9:50:38 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (How many does it take? It takes two. One to eat the possum, the other to direct traffic.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Time for special envoy Dennis Rodman to be dispatched.


35 posted on 05/07/2017 10:38:20 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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