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Americans - please stop walking into North Korea...
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Forever



Joined: 12 Nov 2009
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:51 am    Post subject: Americans - please stop walking into North Korea... Reply with quote
It seems to be becoming a popular trend now for "persons from the States" to walk into the North and get arrested.

Why did this guy do it?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/03/23/american_detained_in_north_korea_is_30_year_old_boston_man/

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Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 30, was identified yesterday by state-run media in North Korea as the fourth US citizen detained for illegal entry in the past year. A trial date was not provided.

It is unclear why Gomes, who had been teaching English in South Korea for about two years, would have crossed into North Korea, the family�s spokeswoman said.


Surely somebody in South Korea knows him, as he was a teacher here in the South for 2 years.

http://rokdrop.com/2010/03/22/who-is-aijalon-mahli-gomes-that-is-detained-in-north-korea/

Was it just to become "famous" or did he have a real objective such as religious?
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soakitincider



Joined: 19 Oct 2009
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can't fix stupid. Unfortunately, it's a lifelong affliction.
Sad
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soakitincider



Joined: 19 Oct 2009
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Man, I replaced that dude at Sinbong School in Pocheon. Swear to my maker!
Surprised
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BigBuds



Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
soakitincider wrote:
Man, I replaced that dude at Sinbong School in Pocheon. Swear to my maker!
Surprised


So, will you replace him when he leaves the North Korea public school system better know as a gulag?
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Maybe he wanted to meet Bill Clinton.
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.38 Special



Joined: 08 Jul 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Americans will stop walking across the border when Koreans start making us Razz Razz Razz

By the sounds of things, gathering intelligence from the Norks must be really easy. Shocked
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Time to send in Bill Richardson and offer some more free food aid for the starving North Korean army that is sworn to destroy the imperialist Americans that are giving them the aid.
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
soakitincider wrote:
Man, I replaced that dude at Sinbong School in Pocheon. Swear to my maker!
Surprised


was he an idiot at school?
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murmanjake



Joined: 21 Oct 2008
PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
dude went to the same college as me

i guess it's a smart school, but some real strange folk
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mc_jc



Joined: 13 Aug 2009
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Maybe he wanted to meet Bill Clinton.


So, if a person really wants to meet Bill Clinton, all they have to do is buy a ticket to China, make their way to northern China and casually walze across the border and get arrested by North Korean border guards?

Seems too much of a hassle to me.

Forever- love the t-shirt!
Now that's what I call "taking initiative"!
LOL! Laughing
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NovaKart



Joined: 18 Nov 2009
Location: Iraq
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aijalon Mahli Gomes? What an odd name. Gomes is Spanish, but Aijalon Mahli? What the hell?
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jiberish



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
OP's avator...lol
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Forever



Joined: 12 Nov 2009
PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aijalon Mahli Gomes receives 8 years hard labor and a $700,000 fine

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040701024.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/0407/American-gets-8-years-labor-could-become-North-Korea-pawn-in-nuclear-talks

Will the North release him soon after they get something they want?

Americans walking into North Korea must realize they are actually helping the North to get things they want - because America will offer them something they want in order to release the American.
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soakitincider



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The guy was odd ball odd. He tried to exude this "Karma Guru" thing. Ineffective. And no, I don't plan any treks to the "Land of the Ill" any time soon. I understand the place ain't rockin'.
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THE CANDY COLOURED CLOWN



Joined: 09 Apr 2010
Location: In dreams I walk with you
PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
He probably heard that Nk Naengmyeong is more chewy and authentic so he wanted to try it. That's fair enough in my opinion.
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