Here we go again, another American has entered into North Korea:
North Korea said Thursday it has detained an American man for illegally entering the country from China, the second arrest of a U.S. citizen it has reported in the past several weeks.The man was detained Monday and is under investigation, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch. It did not identify him by name or provide other details.
In Washington, State Department officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said it had no information while the embassy in Seoul had no comment. [Associated Press]
Read the rest at the link, but right now no one knows who this person is. So I am going to speculate here and say it is probably another Christian activist like Robert Park who crossed over last month. I have to wonder if sending these people across into North Korea is part of a coordinated effort by the Christian activists to push the North Korean human rights issue into the Obama administration’s agenda, which so far they have ignored. If that is the case it is going to take more then sending two people who are not related to Lisa Ling that’s for sure.
This statement in the article I did find of interest:
“I don’t think the North is in a position to take advantage of having either of them,” he said, citing in particular the case of Park, who appears to have entered the country on purpose.
Peter Beck a Stanford researcher made the statement, which seems to imply that unlike Robert Park, that Lisa Ling and Euna Lee didn’t enter North Korea on purpose. You have got to be naive to believe that.
By the way you can read more on this from One Free Korea.







1:13 am on January 28th, 2010 1
…oh the copycats… I wonder how long before we hear about another toddler drifting away in a weather balloon.
1:28 pm on January 28th, 2010 2
"Can you hear me now?"
3:00 pm on January 29th, 2010 3
Bloomberg is reporting he was trying to defect.
3:01 pm on January 29th, 2010 4
Defect and work for the DPRK army.