North Korea to Free American Missionary

Country Announced it Would Release Robert Park, Who Was Detained for Illegally Crossing Border from China
SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 4, 2010

(AP) North Korea announced Friday that it will free an American missionary detained on Christmas Day for illegally crossing the border from China. Robert Park, of Tucson, Arizona, slipped across the frozen Tumen River from China into the North carrying letters calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to close the country's notoriously brutal prison camps and to step down from power, rights activists in Seoul said. the rest