Another American Who Traveled to North Korea is Detained

Any American currently in North Korea or planning to travel there in the near term is an absolute fool that I have little sympathy for:

North Korea has detained a U.S. citizen, officials said Sunday, bringing to three the number of Americans now being held there.

Tony Kim, who also goes by his Korean name Kim Sang-duk, was detained on Saturday, according to Park Chan-mo, the chancellor of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.

Park said Kim, who is in his 50s, taught accounting at the university for about a month. He said Kim was detained by officials as he was trying to leave the country from Pyongyang’s international airport.  [Associated Press]

You can read more at the link, but Tony Kim is reportedly a professor in the Yanbian prefecture of China across the border from China.  What he was doing in North Korea is unclear, but really it doesn’t matter there is no good reason for an American to be in North Korea. All this guy has done besides greatly stressing his family is given the Kim regime a third American detainee bargaining chip to assist them with any future negotiations with the US.