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White House Urges N. Korea to Release US Citizen

2013-12-02

[VOA News] The White House is calling on

North Korea to release an elderly American and veteran of the Korean War who has been held in North Korean custody since late October.

A White House statement Saturday urged Pyongyang to allow 85-year-old Merrill Newman, who suffers from a heart condition, to "return home and reunite with his family."

Newman, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, native, was visiting North Korea with a valid visa when he was removed from an airplane October 26 as he prepared to depart the country.

Earlier Saturday, the North's official Korean Central News Agency confirmed it had tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
Newman. The report said he had apologized for "crimes" during the Korean war, and for "hostile acts" against the state during his October visit.

Posted by:Fred

#6 "release the mylar ballons!"

Posted by: Frank G 2013-12-02 18:15

#5 "Knocking out the Pyongyang power grid for a couple of weeks might get their attention."

What power grid?

Do two buildings, or even two streets, count as a "grid"?

Posted by: Barbara 2013-12-02 15:39

#4 The North Koreans have now taken captive a US citizen with no ethnic connection to Korea whom they had admitted to their country as a tourist.

A line was crossed here. Tourists have never been expected to toe the ideological line of the host dictatorship. This has been an implicit understanding for decades.

Western officials' acceptance of Rushdie rules vis a vis Islam might have given the Norks some ideas.

The logical next step for the Norks is abducting Americans living in South Korea and Japan.

"As the Roman, in days of old, held himself free from indignity, when he could say, Civis Romanus sum, so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him from injustice and wrong."

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-12-02 14:28

#3 Dennis Rodman to the Red Communist courtesy phone. You have a phone call

Posted by: Airandee 2013-12-02 07:42

#2 Knocking out the Pyongyang power grid for a couple of weeks might get their attention.

Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-02 07:35

#1 Fear North Korea, for at night, they have the technology to put the whole country into stealth mode.

Posted by: gorb 2013-12-02 00:48

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