[quote]SEOUL (REUTERS) – North Korea detained a United States citizen on Friday (April 21), South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, bringing the total number of Americans held by the isolated country to three.
The man, a Korean-American in his fifties identified only by his surname Kim, had been in North Korea for a month to discuss relief activities, Yonhap said on Sunday. He was arrested at Pyongyang International Airport on his way out of the country.
The man was a former professor at Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST), Yonhap said, citing unnamed sources.
YUST, a university in neighbouring China, has a sister university in Pyongyang.
An official at South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said it was not aware of the reported arrest. Calls to YUST went unanswered.
North Korea, which has been criticised for its human rights record, has in the past used detained Americans to extract high-profile visits from the United States, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations.
North Korea was already holding two Americans.[/quote]
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Hmm. Something seems off here.
A better headline:
[quote]North Korea takes third US citizen hostage: Report[/quote]
[QUOTE=SKEEA;52139716]Hmm. Something seems off here.[/QUOTE]
Seems like business as usual for NK.
Isn't that dude who stole the poster still there? I'm assuming he's one of the other two. Scary shit, I would never travel there.
[QUOTE=Hunterdnrc;52143515]Isn't that dude who stole the poster still there? I'm assuming he's one of the other two. Scary shit, I would never travel there.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old student, was detained in January last year and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour by a North Korean court for attempting to steal a propaganda banner.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit, to lose 15 years of your adult life for that is unimaginable
[QUOTE=Bigstivie;52143900]Holy shit, to lose 15 years of your adult life for that is unimaginable[/QUOTE]
ya and the crime was intention to steal so what if u he actually managed to steal it, 30 years? Death?
[QUOTE=sYnced;52143964]ya and the crime was intention to steal so what if u he actually managed to steal it, 30 years? Death?[/QUOTE]
3 generations of torture.
And then death
[QUOTE=ZakkShock;52144629]3 generations of torture.
And then death[/QUOTE]
seems liberal, lets crank it up.
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