Posted on 12/28/2009 6:53:07 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Calif parents of US missionary believed detained in North Korea join vigil for safe return
ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press Writer
1:51 AM PST, December 28, 2009
SAN MARCOS, Calif. (AP) — An American missionary believed to be detained when he stepped into North Korea on Christmas didn't inform his parents of his plans but they had a hunch he would visit the communist nation.
"We had a sense," Pyong Park, the missionary's father, told The Associated Press late Sunday. "We told him to continue what you're doing in South Korea."
About 100 people held candles Sunday night at Palomar Korean Church in San Marcos, a north San Diego suburb, to commend Park for going to North Korea.
"Robert is doing what God called on him to do," the Rev. Madison Shockley told the crowd. "We call this speaking truth to power."
Robert Park, 28, slipped across the frozen Tumen River into the North from China carrying a letter calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to shut down the country's political prison camps. There has been no word from him since.
Park's parents last heard from their son Dec. 23 in an e-mail that predicted upheaval in North Korea.
"Know that I am the happiest in all my life," his e-mail read. "Incredible miracles are happening in the liberation of North Koreans right now ... We are going to see a big and beautiful change in Korea and in the World this year!"
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Ping!
Then, Robert's fate is entirely in Kim's hands. Whatever happens to him, will have to have been signed off personally and at the direction of Kim Jong il. It will say a lot about him. Of course, this is the man who sent our "Mayumi Hachiya" (Kim Hyeong Hee) to blow up a loaded aircraft with innocent South Korean workers returning from the Middle East, and also who directed bombings in Rangoon, and in Seoul, and kidnappings, rapes, and assassinations. I cannot expect for his lenience upon this man, a Christian, now on North Korean soil.
Then, Robert's fate is entirely in Kim's hands. Whatever happens to him, will have to have been signed off personally and at the direction of Kim Jong il. It will say a lot about him. Of course, this is the man who sent our "Mayumi Hachiya" (Kim Hyeong Hee) to blow up a loaded aircraft with innocent South Korean workers returning from the Middle East, and also who directed bombings in Rangoon, and in Seoul, and kidnappings, rapes, and assassinations. I cannot expect for his lenience upon this man, a Christian, now on North Korean soil.
Compare this young man with the Nigerian scum.
As easy as it is for us to reject the ridiculous notion that this quixotic act might cause Kim Jong Il to repent and experience a religious conversion, Park’s madness is only a few degrees removed from our foreign policy establishment’s faith that the right Special Envoy can inspire Kim Jong Il to repent and experience a diplomatic conversion. Scratch almost anyone in the State Department’s East Asia Bureau today and there’s a Robert Park who thinks that he’s The One who can do it. No doubt, as we speak, junior and has-been diplomats all along the Eastern Seaboard are imagining themselves escorting Robert Park up the steps of a charter flight at Sunan Airport, having left behind enough ransom aid to run a small concentration camp for years.
I hate to be cruel but the guy I think is crazy go into Regime like NORTH Korea got caught don’t expect US miltary come rescue Jr I am sorry his fault
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