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(LEAD) N. Korea threatens to apply 'wartime laws' on detained U.S. national
Yonhap News ^ | 06/24/10 | Sam Kim

Posted on 06/24/2010 3:52:05 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

(LEAD) N. Korea threatens to apply 'wartime laws' on detained U.S. national

By Sam Kim

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea threatened Thursday to apply "wartime laws" on a U.S. national it is holding, citing what it called U.S. hostilities against the communist country over the sinking of a South Korean warship.

Earlier this year, a North Korean court sentenced Aijalon Gomes, a 30-year-old American, to eight years in a labor camp for illegal entry on Jan. 25.

The communist state's official Korean Central News Agency said its authorities are considering additional measures against Gomes "from the perspective of wartime laws."

"Only the question of how to aggravate the sentence remains" as the U.S. continues to side with South Korea in blaming North Korea for the sinking of the Cheonan corvette on March, it said.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.yonhapnews.co.kr ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201001; 20100125; 201003; aijalongomes; cheonan; corvette; nkorea; norks; sinking; skoreanship; sunk

1 posted on 06/24/2010 3:52:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

P!


2 posted on 06/24/2010 3:52:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I would like to see us execute a decapitation strategy on this regime and take away all their nuclear toys in the process.


3 posted on 06/24/2010 4:00:06 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Big Dong Chink say, “Barack, pay attention over here, and send money if want this useful idiot back”.


4 posted on 06/24/2010 4:00:21 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To which Barak will respond, “Chia Head, is he properly reeducated? I won't take him until he becomes a solid ACORN material.”
5 posted on 06/24/2010 4:05:28 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Now that funny Tiger ROFL

Does he realize ACORN shut up shops LOL!


6 posted on 06/24/2010 9:14:06 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thanks.


7 posted on 06/27/2010 2:24:59 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
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Followup :

Prisoner Freed From North Korea in 2010 Dies After Being Found on Fire in San Diego
by nickcarraway · 11 replies
NBC San Diego ^ | Nov 21, 2017 | Monica Garske
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3606994/posts


8 posted on 11/21/2017 11:36:07 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Too bad. I wonder what his problem was.
9 posted on 11/21/2017 11:40:10 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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