I must have got that wrong. Someone likely wagging a dog at me, 'eh?
"North Korea preparing to try 2 American tourists" by Eric Talmadge | Associated Press July 01, 2014
TOKYO — North Korea said Monday it is preparing to try two Americans who entered the country as tourists for carrying out what it says were hostile acts against it.
Investigations into Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle concluded that suspicions about their hostile acts have been confirmed by evidence and their testimonies, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a short report.
KCNA said North Korea is making preparations to bring the Americans before a court. It did not specify what the two did that was considered hostile or illegal, or what kind of punishment they might face. It also did not say when the trial would begin.
Though a small number of US citizens visit North Korea each year as tourists, the State Department strongly advises against it.
Fowle arrived in the county on April 29. North Korea’s state media said last month that authorities were investigating him for committing acts inconsistent with the purpose of a tourist visit.
Diplomatic sources said Fowle was detained for leaving a Bible in his hotel room. But a spokesman for Fowle’s family said the 56-year-old from Miamisburg, Ohio, was not on a mission for his church.
I find that very interesting because one of the CIA's non-official covers is within fundamental religious groups, be they Christian or Muslim.
I'm not trying to mock anyone, I just want you to understand why I no longer believe any version of anything coming from my paper.
His wife and three children, ages 9, 10, and 12, said they miss him very much and ‘‘are anxious for his return home,’’ according to a statement after his detention that was provided by a spokesman for the family.
‘‘It’s devastating,’’ Sergei Luzginov, a Fowle family friend who lives in North Port, Fla., said Monday. ‘‘We are praying for him. . . . He loves his kids and he was very protective of his family, and it’s going to be tough for them to survive without Jeff if he’s going to be sentenced for a long time.’’
Luzginov said he met the Fowle family in 2007 through the Russian immigrant community in Lebanon, Ohio. Both Luzginov and Fowle’s wife, Tatyana, 40, are Russian immigrants.
Fowle works for the city streets department in Moraine, Ohio.
?????
And he decides to take a vacation to North Korea of all places?
Who does he think he is, Dennis Rodman.
Luzginov said Fowle’s family and friends are trying to be optimistic about the outcome of the case, ‘‘but at the same time, you know the track record’’ of the North Korean government.
Imagine if the CIA had gotten a hold of him and either rendered him, set him adrift at sea, or Gitmoed him.
KCNA said Miller, 24, entered the country April 10 with a tourist visa, but tore it up at the airport and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum. A large number of Western tourists were visiting in April to run in the annual Pyongyang Marathon or attend related events. Miller came at that time, but tour organizers say he was not planning to take part in the race.
Oh, the OTHER GUY CAUSED a SCENE, huh? So he was SURE to BE NOTICED!
Again, what this smells like, I'm sorry to stay, is more staged and scripted fiction.
North Korea has also been separately holding Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae since November 2012. After being convicted by a North Korean court, he is serving 15 years of hard labor, also for what the government says were hostile acts against the state.
Time to wave bae-bae to this pos propaganda.
The latest arrests present a conundrum for Washington, which has no diplomatic ties with North Korea and no embassy in Pyongyang.
Instead, the Swedish Embassy takes responsibility for US consular affairs in the North. State Department officials say they cannot release details about the cases because they need a privacy waiver to do so.
Pyongyang has been strongly pushing tourism lately in an effort to bring in foreign cash. The tourism push has been directed at Chinese, who by far are the most common visitors to North Korea, but the still small number of Western tourists has been growing.
Oh, a but and a still only separated by a the. Lovely.
???????
They invite people for tours and the U.S. sends spies?!!?
Otherwise, why would the North Koreans do this? Doe$n't make $en$e!!
Despite its efforts to bring in more tourists, the North remains highly sensitive to any actions it considers political and is particularly wary of anything it deems to be Christian proselytizing.
Yeah, right, the whole world is paranoid at Washington's altrui$tic intentions and domination of the globe.
After Miller’s detention, Washington updated its travel warning to note that over the past 18 months, ‘‘North Korea detained several US citizens who were part of organized tours. Do not assume that joining a group tour or use of a tour guide will prevent your arrest or detention by North Korean authorities.’’
Basically a warning that you are on your own!
We can't send in the Seals to assassinate, I mean rescue you.
North Korea ain't Pakistan, right?!!
--more--"
