Student missing for 12 years was 'kidnapped to teach English to Kim Jong-un'

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OP - September 02, 2016, 04:44 PM

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The family of a college student who disappeared during a 2004 trip to China see new signs for hope after a Japanese news agency reported that he was kidnapped by the North Korean government.

David Sneddon was presumed dead after he vanished in the Yunnan Province in western China when he was 24. A student at Brigham Young University, police said Mr Sneddon likely died while hiking in Tiger Leaping Gorge near the Jinsha River on 14 August 2004.

But they never recovered a body.

On Wednesday, Yahoo News Japan reported that Mr Sneddon had been spotted in North Korea, where he is believed to live. He reportedly works as an English teacher, and has a wife and two children.

The US Department of State announced Wednesday that they will begin searching for Mr Sneddon in North Korea.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/david-sneddon-found-north-korea-english-12-years-byu-kim-jong-un-a7220951.html

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Reply #1 - September 02, 2016, 04:49 PM

Wow, that's almost unbelievable.
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Reply #2 - September 02, 2016, 05:21 PM

I remember seeing a documentary ages ago about Japanese and South Korean people who were kidnapped and brought to North Korea for various reasons. Don't remember the details but it seems to be a state policy there that if they need a skill their own people don't possess they simply find a foreigner who does and steal them. Some of them who came home to Japan were so brainwashed after years of living in N Korea that they still wouldn't hear a bad word about the Dear Leader.

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Reply #3 - September 02, 2016, 08:33 PM

They sentenced an American college student to 15 years of hard labor earlier this year. Unfortunately for him, the English tutor vacancy was filled.

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