By Considering how long and how quietly the North Koreans have been holding this man it makes you wonder if he was being held so long to provide a long interrogation of his missionary activities within North Korea?:
North Korea said Thursday it plans to indict a U.S. citizen being held since November for an unspecific crime, in the latest detention of an American in the communist country.
Jun Young-su was arrested in November last year and has since been investigated by officials for committing a crime against the North after entering the country, said North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
“He admitted his crime in the course of the investigation,” the KCNA said, without elaborating. “The relevant organ is making arrangements to indict him according to the confirmation of the charges brought against him.” The KCNA did not give any further details on the charges and timeframe of the indictment.
The confirmation came days after State Department spokesman Mark Toner urged North Korea to release the American detainee on humanitarian grounds. [Korea Times]
Read the rest at the link, but Jun Young-su is from Orange County, California and has been supposedly to North Korea many times for business reasons. I have to wonder if the business reasons were really a cover for his missionary activities?
Anyway don’t expect Bill Clinton to come pick him up because he only picks up women in North Korea. Maybe he can catch a flight back to the US with Jimmy Carter and the other useful idiots visiting Pyongyang later this month?
2:28 pm on April 14th, 2011 1
Another missionary? For Christs sake. If the Holy Father wanted the North Koreans to worship Him, perhaps He'd do something about it so they could?
/Why does God need a dictator?
3:04 pm on April 14th, 2011 2
"I have to wonder if the business reasons were really a cover for his missionary activities?"
Maybe, but that's also North Korea negotiates business deals. Don't forget that they pulled the same stunt a few years back with South Korean employees of the construction company that was to build a nuclear power station.
7:51 am on April 16th, 2011 3
In this case, we don't know if Kim Jong-Il even wants a visit by Bill Clinton. In the previous case, he did. K bloggers and K commenters pride themselves on their refusal to read 'Somewhere Inside'. GI Korea, you could set a new trend. You could read that book, and then you'd know how it came about that Clinton rescued the two women.
8:12 am on April 16th, 2011 4
Glans I refuse to read their book until they drop the Kindle price. It is robbery to charge $12.99 for a Kindle edition of their book. For people supposedly wanting to get their story out they sure are trying to maximize their profits from it.
8:48 am on April 16th, 2011 5
Glans votes Democrat so he can have the government give him all his books for free…
Imagine the nerve of folks wanting to charge for their labor!
10:13 am on April 16th, 2011 6
setnaffa and Retired GI, here are two books kushibo does not want you to buy:
'The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness'
'Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home'