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On the other hand
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Okay, here's something. According to the Boston Globe, Gomes was a friend of Robert Park, that other Christian missionary who ran into North Korea in the hopes of knocking KJI off his horse...
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They based that assessment on the recent case of another American and a friend of Gomes named Robert Park, from Tucson. Park, an evangelical Christian missionary, crossed into North Korea on Christmas Day with a letter calling for leader Kim Jong Il to resign. Park was immediately arrested.
Park�s case may have motivated Gomes, 30, to enter North Korea a month later, on Jan. 25. Rights campaigners in Seoul, the South Korean capital, were quoted in news accounts as saying Gomes had met Park last year at church-sponsored protests � and had been very upset by Park�s arrest.
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So we can probably put two and two together here and make a reasonable guess as to his motivations.
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caniff
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Location: All over the map
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ThingsComeAround
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I could already imagine the story if I'm in North Korea
"TCA went to North Korea. Maybe he is dead already because he is a constant complainer."
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"TCA has become KJI's new right-hand man. They share interests such as adult cinema, and really bad movies"
perhaps
"KJI has just been bitch-slapped by TCA, who escaped by swimming to Dokdo. News at 11" |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Wow, that's crazy for an immigration infraction. 8 years hard labor and $700,000 fine. I wonder how Bill Clinton got those two women out of there? It probably is that bribery or paying a huge fine did the trick though nothing about money was reported in that dealing. Money makes a way through anything, except death. In most countries you'd be fined a few hundred dollars and deported, but the DPRK is not most countries so it behooves you to not walk any further North than about 25 miles outside of Seoul. |
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mises
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Location: retired
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I suspect that with his evangelical fervour, he got swept up in the idea of storming the barricades and leading the North Koreans to Christ. |
Seems to be the case. A very irresponsible decision. I'm sure the Americans will find a way to get him out. |
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