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01-07-2014 05:02 PM |
I'm surprised that some people are surprised at Rodman speaking/behaving looney. :helpme
http://www.josadio.com/wp-content/up...wits-Small.jpg
As for Kenneth Bae, it is obvious that the reporter was baiting Rodman (and he bit - hook, line, and sinker).
If the CNN reporter did any research at all, he would be able to find out why the North Korean government sentenced Bae to 15 years in prison.
Unfamiliar with the Kenneth Bae case, I found this article in less than 10 seconds of looking:
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North Korea explains why it sentenced American Kenneth Bae to hard labor
Mr. Bae was detained and sentenced to 15 years in prison. North Korea today spelled out its charges, which include plotting to overthrow the government.
North Korea released new details on Thursday of the crimes for which Kenneth Bae was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor last week, painting the American as a subversive who was plotting to overthrow the government.
A spokesman of the North Korean Supreme Court told state news agency KCNA that Mr. Bae "set up plot-breeding bases in different places of China for the purpose of toppling the DPRK government from 2006 to October 2012 out of distrust and enmity toward the DPRK." The KCNA refers to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and to Bae by his Korean name, Pae Jun Ho.
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[Bae] committed such hostile acts as egging citizens of the DPRK overseas and foreigners on to perpetrate hostile acts to bring down its government while conducting a malignant smear campaign against it. He was caught red handed and prosecuted while entering Rason City of the DPRK, bringing with him anti-DPRK literature on Nov. 3 last year.
Pae visited different churches of the U.S. and south Korea to preach the necessity and urgency to bring down the DPRK government. He was dispatched to China as a missionary of the Youth With A Mission in April, 2006. After setting up plot-breeding bases disguised with diverse signboards in different parts of China for the past six years, avoiding the eyes of its security organs, he brought together more than 1,500 citizens of the DPRK, China and foreigners before whom he gave anti-DPRK lectures.
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The article adds that Bae planned the "Jericho operation," which involved infiltrating some 250 students into Rason, where he was arrested. The article also says that Bae avoided the death penalty only because he confessed to his purported crimes.
Bae was arrested last November while leading a legal tour in North Korea, and last week received the longest sentence ever meted out in North Korea against a US citizen. His sentencing comes amid heightened tensions between Pyongyang and Washington, and is seen by analysts as a move to use Bae as a bargaining chip to procure concessions from the US. The KCNA article denied that Bae would be used as such, however.
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I don't condone the imprisonment of Kenneth Bae, however when I look at his case and sentence, I am reminded of recently convicted whistleblower Bradley Manning (who had to endure pre-trial torture, etc).
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:stoned
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