College student, presumed dead 12 years was kidnapped by North Korea

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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.

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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1. Fascinating

If NK can kidnap people who are in China that's not a good thing!

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2. I just finished a book about the kidnapping program

that Kim Jong-Il was running. NK is a nation full of fucking nutbars.

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3. ... the US State Department says there is no evidence to confirm reports

that missionary David Sneddon was seized while hiking in China's Yunnan province ...

Did North Korea abduct missing U.S. student David Sneddon?
By KJ Kwon and Ben Westcott, CNN
Updated 9:44 AM ET, Fri September 2, 2016