North Korea sentenced a U.S. citizen (Thursday) to 15 years of hard work on the harm to the country, prompted the United States called for amnesty for him, hope he avoid becoming a bargaining chip between the two countries.
Kenneth PEI, aged 44, was born in South Korea, but a naturalized U.S. citizen, and two years studying psychology at the University of Oregon. Two months after his sentencing sharpening see North Korea's threat of nuclear war, the United States and South Korea.
Pyongyang has tried to use the American prisoners of war negotiations assets negotiations with Washington. Case, one speaking on condition of anonymity, a U.S. official said Washington is currently looking for a special envoy to try, as it is sometimes to do so, in order to ensure the release of PEI.
The official said that the United States has sought in recent years to play out a model to solve repeated crisis with North Korea through trades.
"We urge the DPRK (North Korea) Mr. Bae Yong Joon granting amnesty, immediate release," State Department deputy spokesman Patrick Ventrell said.
Bruce Klingner, a former CIA analyst of North Korea, dismissed the idea that, Pei release will trigger the renewal of the long-overdue diplomatic.
Previously arrested U.S. citizen did not lead to policy changes in North Korea to resume bilateral dialogue or breakthrough of the US-North Korea relations, "Klingner, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation (Heritage Foundation) think-tank.
PEI may be in a special facility to serve their sentences for foreigners, rather than in a totalitarian country's labor camps. Human rights groups say more than 20 people were detained in these camps, where they were beaten, starved, and sometimes even death.
South Korean human rights activists said Bae Yong Joon may take photos of starving children have been arrested.
BAE is "a committed Christian, said:" David Ross, director of a missionary training center in Antioch world ministries Inc. In Monroe, Washington.
For orphans and feelings, have done some of orphan ministry feeding added: "Ross, he said he has been a casual acquaintance, because they encounter Pei four years ago in the Church of Hawaii. "He has the heart of a missionary," Ross said.
Pei's sentencing brought the bad memories EUNA Lee, sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2009 and former President Bill Clinton's visit to Pyongyang only after the release of two American journalists. She cried out loud in court, her labor camp been sentenced.
The word 'reform through labor' slim hopes, I had to leave me behind, I was physically and mentally weak, born in South Korea, Mr. Lee said: "I really thought I would not make it home by e-mail.
PEI 5 tourists who visited the northeastern city of Rajin, North Korea, and has been held in November, and since then a part of the group. According to U.S. media reports, Bae Yong Joon lived in the Seattle area.
State Department recommended that U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to North Korea, but it does not prevent the visitors.
"U.S. citizens crossing into North Korea, even accidentally, have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and prolonged detention," read the department's travel warning, updated in March.
Avoid tangles
Former ambassador to the UN Bill Richardson, who has made many to the DPRK, including the efforts of the release of detained Americans, which means that Bae Yong Joon's case should not become entangled in the current impasse in the United States and North Korea.
"Now, the sentencing and North Korea, the legal process has been completed, it is important that negotiations began to fixed Kenneth Pei humanitarian grounds or amnesty release," said Richardson, who visited North Korea in January with Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said any negotiations with North Korea is "depends on the DPRK demonstrated a willingness to live up to its international obligations."
North Korea is the United Nations Security Council to end its nuclear and missile tests, as well as punitive UN sanctions resolution, called on the subject.
Some media reports have identified Pei as the leaders of the tour. NK News, Korean news sites, experts say, he has a company called national tour that specializes in northeastern North Korea tourism.
The report can not verify and North Korea's state news agency KCNA did not list any specific responsibility for endangering national, other than the name of the Korea rendering Bae Yong Joon, PAE Jun-ho, when the Supreme Court's decision report.
"North Korea has shown that they intend to use him as a bargaining card, because they have done in the past," said Chang-Sheng Chang, a senior fellow at the Sejong Institute in Seoul, a think tank.
Personal TRIBUTE?
North Korea appears to be using a form of high-profile release of prisoners to extract personal tribute, rather than economic or diplomatic interests, often portrayed visiting dignitaries paying homage.
Attempt to free detained before former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, he has traveled to North Korea, the United States, there is no plan to do so Pei, Carter's spokesman said.
Under Korean law, the punishment against hostile acts is 5 years and 10 years' hard labor.
"I think his sentencing is heavy, North Korea seems to think that his behavior is more serious," Chang Ming-feng, professor emeritus of Seoul National University and the Korean legal experts said. "
North Korea is one of the planet's most isolated country. Its official policy of "subject", or self-reliance, is a blend of Marxism, extreme nationalism and the ruling Kim family worship focused on self-sufficiency.
It is unclear, Bae Yong Joon has taken to jail immediately.
He may be imprisoned in the a North infamous labor camps, such as the right to Hyo Jin, a defector is locked. The right, where prisoners were worked to death, often eat rats and snakes survived only.
"If the prisoners in the United States and North Korea, which will not occur sentenced to jail together, he can tell them, this will be the biggest mistake in the Korean capitalist economic development, said:" The rights, North Korea and sentenced her to seven years, until 2007 years of camp. In 2009, he defected to South Korea.
"(BAE) will be sent to correctional institutions, housing foreigners, and set up a model of international human rights groups."
Lee, TV reporters, including two illegal border crossing in North Korea who risked their lives fleeing their country near the Chinese-produced documentary "hostile acts" and 10 years old, her 12-year sentence.
"I do not think Mr. Bae Yong Joon physical abuse, at this point, especially if North Korea plans to talk to the United States," she said. "In my case, I hope I'm wrong on the report of their human rights problems and would like to give me the impression that they take care of their prisoners in a humanitarian way."
Pei lawyers Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang has no diplomatic relations with North Korea. The embassy refused to comment on the case, said Ventrell Swedes did not attend the trial of Bae Yong Joon.
 
 



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