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northway
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 Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 2:34 pm Post subject: Anyone know this guy? |
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| Miller had moved to South Korea around four years ago and, according to KCNA, developed “inveterate hostility” toward the North while living unemployed in Seoul. Yet the report that runs to almost 1,200 words insists his nefarious plot wasn’t the action of a lone, crazy man but rather from someone who was sent by the United States to spy. And state media insists Miller is hardly an isolated case, as the United States is constantly violating the country’s sovereignty. |
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/09/20/matthew_todd_miller_north_korea_says_imprisoned_american_wanted_to_become.html |
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Kepler
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like this person has mental problems. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Stan Rogers wrote: |
| Sounds like this person has mental problems. |
Maybe, but he comes from a high-achieving family and is described as 'extremely intelligent', the norks probably recognized that he is a smart kid and automatically thought he was spying for the U.S. and they might even be right. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Died By Bear wrote: |
| Stan Rogers wrote: |
| Sounds like this person has mental problems. |
Maybe, but he comes from a high-achieving family and is described as 'extremely intelligent', the norks probably recognized that he is a smart kid and automatically thought he was spying for the U.S. and they might even be right. |
It's foolish to believe that dude will ever see the inside of a North Korean labor camp. He will be housed, employed, and treated exactly the same as every other American prisoner has been. |
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Kepler
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| spent months in South Korea pretending to be an Englishman named "Preston Somerset", |
lol
Only an american would think that any english person could bear the name "Preston Somerset".
They're place names. Looks like the guy looked at a map of England and chose the first words he saw.
Its like saying "I'm American! My name is "New York Detroit"! |
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Lucas
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guavashake
Joined: 09 Nov 2013
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| Kepler wrote: |
| spent months in South Korea pretending to be an Englishman named "Preston Somerset", |
lol
Only an american would think that any english person could bear the name "Preston Somerset".
They're place names. Looks like the guy looked at a map of England and chose the first words he saw.
Its like saying "I'm American! My name is "New York Detroit"! |
..... or Paris Hilton |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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That guys a fool. He knowing crossed into North Korea, fully cognizant of the likely consequences, and is now pissed off that "my government" is making maximum efforts to get him released. Let him due his jail time as a warning to any other idiots out there who might try the same thing. Same goes for that missionary guy. They knew full well what they were getting in to. Just like those idiot missionaries who went to Afghanistan a few years ago.
Idiots. All of them. |
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Old Painless
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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That guys a fool. He knowing crossed into North Korea, fully cognizant of the likely consequences, and is now pissed off that "my government" is making maximum efforts to get him released. Let him due his jail time as a warning to any other idiots out there who might try the same thing. Same goes for that missionary guy. They knew full well what they were getting in to. Just like those idiot missionaries who went to Afghanistan a few years ago.
Idiots. All of them. |
Agree, idiots for putting themselves there to begin with. I think the gov just considers them unsalvageable.
I read an account here
According to U.S. officials, 7,245 Americans were captured or interned during the Korean War. Of these, 2,806 died in captivity, 4,418 were released to the U.S., and 21 refused repatriation and chose voluntarily to go live in the People’s Republic of China (more on this later).
Upon their return to the United States, they were considered traitors and followed by the FBI for months. This was in the 50s and 60s. They had to go before a senate hearing to be cleared to get jobs.
Here's another very long read about the two CIA paramilitary guys that spent 20 years in Chinese prison cells until Nixon acknowledged that they were CIA in the early 70s. Very long read, the CIA took good care of them and their families during and after their internment.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol50no4/two-cia-prisoners-in-china-1952201373.html |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Died By Bear wrote: |
| is described as 'extremely intelligent', |
Being extremely withdrawn often gives that impression I suppose.
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| or Paris Hilton |
Americans tend to use surnames as first names. But this guy seems to have gotten mixed up between Kelly Preston and Somerset maugham. I doubt he's even visited England.
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| guavashake wrote: |
| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| Kepler wrote: |
| spent months in South Korea pretending to be an Englishman named "Preston Somerset", |
lol
Only an american would think that any english person could bear the name "Preston Somerset".
They're place names. Looks like the guy looked at a map of England and chose the first words he saw.
Its like saying "I'm American! My name is "New York Detroit"! |
..... or Paris Hilton |
Charlotte Richmond. Virginia Boston. Pierre Beaumont. Casper Phoenix. Olympia Montgomery.
Helena...Dakota...Madison...Washington...Lincoln...Georgia...Bismarck... |
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radcon
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guavashake
Joined: 09 Nov 2013
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It seems to be him... some of his "likes" are Korean websites
I made a friend request
He "liked" the book Seven Years in Tibet... now he can write his own book |
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