North Korea Detains American For Unknown Reasons And Threatens Nuclear War With Australia

North Korea has detained an American man for unknown reasons as he was planning to take a flight out of the Pyongyang International Airport on Saturday morning. The detained American was only identified by his common surname, Kim. The South Korean news agency Yonhap said the detained U.S. citizen is in his 50s, was a former professor from Yanbian University in China and had been in North Korea for a month to provide aid to those in need.

From CNN:

The detention was confirmed by Martina Aberg, deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of Sweden in Pyongyang. The Swedish Embassy represents US interests in North Korea, since Washington and Pyongyang do not have direct diplomatic relations. “He was prevented from getting on the flight out of Pyongyang,” Aberg told CNN. “We don’t comment further than this.”

The BBC reports that there are currently two other Americans being detained in North Korea:

In January last year, US student Otto Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while visiting North Korea.
He was given 15 years’ hard labour for crimes against the state in March 2016.

In April last year, Kim Dong-chul, a 62-year-old naturalised US citizen born in South Korea, was sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour for spying. He had been arrested the previous October.

This comes after Kim Jong Un’s regime threatened to strike Australia with a nuclear bomb if it continued to “blindly” follow the United States.

On Monday, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop stated that “the North Korean Government should invest in the welfare of its long-suffering citizens, rather than weapons of mass destruction.” She added that North Korea’s nuclear weapons program poses a “serious threat” to Australia unless it is stopped by the international community. Instead of Pyongyang saying, “No, we love Australia, we pose no threat to the Australian people.” North Korea actually confirmed Bishop’s worries by seriously threatening Australia with a nuclear attack. You can’t make this shit up.

A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry warned Bishop to “think twice about the consequences to be entailed by her reckless tongue-lashing before flattering the U.S.”

“The present Government of Australia is blindly and zealously toeing the US line,” the spokesperson said. Also accusing Australia of “spouting a string of rubbish.”

“If Australia persists in following the United States’ moves to isolate and stifle North Korea … this will be a suicidal act of coming within the range of the nuclear strike of the strategic force of North Korea.”

Then finally he said, “What she uttered can never be pardoned.”

In related news, the U.S. supercarrier Carl Vinson will arrive in the Sea of Japan in days, Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday.

[ABC]

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