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China-Japan-Koreas
NKorea charges US man in plot to overthrow regime
2013-04-28
[Al Ahram] North Korea announced Saturday that an American tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
 for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.
The case involving Kenneth Bae, who has been in North Korean custody since early November, further complicates already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington following weeks of heightened rhetoric and tensions.

The trial mirrors a similar situation in 2009, when the U.S. and North Korea were locked in a standoff over Pyongyang's decision to launch a long-range rocket and conduct an underground nuclear test. At the time, North Korea had custody of two American journalists, whose eventual release after being sentenced to 12 years of hard labor paved the way for diplomacy following months of tensions.
Posted by:Fred

#6  In other news, there are tours of North Korea. Sign me up!
Posted by: Raj   2013-04-28 19:01  

#5  Why would anyone go to North Korea for any reason other than maybe a Chinese or Russian diplomat?

Is the money really worth the risk?
Posted by: AlanC   2013-04-28 18:58  

#4  Inductions dangeruse!
Posted by: Mojo   2013-04-28 13:36  

#3  What kind of a clown would go to Nork for any reason? He's an American? Yeah? Half Korean, you say? Visiting his sick mother perhaps?

If you spent a few minutes researching instead of unsuccessfully composing purple prose, you might have found this:

Kenneth Bae (Pae Jun-ho), a 44-year-old ethnic Korean with US citizenship, was arrested last November as he accompanied five Europeans into the Rason Special Economic Zone, a pilot region on the border of China and Russia which is open to foreign companies... Mr Bae, who is believed to have lived in China, ran a travel agency called Nation Tours and had visited North Korea several times before without incident, according to Do Hee-youn, who heads the Citizens Coalition for the Human Rights of North Korean Refugees, based in Seoul... The circumstances of Mr Bae's arrest are unclear, but Do Hee-youn told the New York Times that Mr Bae may have taken photographs of orphans begging for food in the markets of Rason.

All that in five minutes, instead of engaging in keyboard-onanism.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-04-28 11:50  

#2  What kind of a clown would go to Nork for any reason? He's an American? Yeah? Half Korean, you say? Visiting his sick mother perhaps?

WHY are they charging him? Because we can be manipulated. Norks are that sort of people. He isn't guilty of anything except being really stupid. Stupid doesn't live to be old. Kiss him goodbye. What else ya' got?

What assets anyplace in the world do the Norks have. make me a list. What would hurt them and really annoy them if something happened to their asset? Do one this week and one next week. They may even try to ignore it. Keep doing it until they can't ignore it. What are they going to do: complain? Do they have an Embassy anywhere? Arrange an accident. Diplomats can make noises. Song and dance. Arrange another accident somewhere else. Dirty? We must have somebody on the payroll who knows where the Nork Ambassador's mother lives.
Buy someone, someone expendable. Buy another Nork. I hear that some will work for food.
Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823   2013-04-28 08:10  

#1  Let's go ahead and cave, it will save time and money.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-04-28 06:21  

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