Korean-American Activist Crosses Into North Korea (Updated)

Oh God, not again.

Reuters is reporting that Robert Park, a 28 year-old American, has walked across the Tumen River from China to the North Korean town of Hoeryong, which is infamous for being both the birthplace of Kim Jong Il’s mother and the town nearest to Camp 22. Park’s apparent objectives were (1) to get himself arrested and (2) thereby raise global attention about North Korea’s brutal political prison camps. Rest assured that Park will accomplish Objective Number One. The North Korean soldiers who arrested Laura Ling and Euna Lee in March are still being lauded as heroes.

The North Koreans have yet to confirm that they have Park in custody.

Park was known, but not well known, among American activists working to bring attention to North Korean human rights issues, help North Korean refugees, and pressure North Korea and the governments that sustain it with aid. Fellow activists who’ve e-mailed me in the last several hours describe Park as something of a fringe figure someone who orbited around them, but whose views were neither influential nor particularly well known to many of them. If Park was plugged into any activist organization, it must have been South Korean. Yet Park obviously wasn’t acting completely alone, and this stunt appears to have been premeditated:

Activists told Reuters that Robert Park, 28, had crossed into North Korea from China on Friday, while South Korea’s Yonhap news agency and the Kukmin Ilbo newspaper quoted activists who went with him to the border as saying he had crossed at a sparsely patrolled point near the northeast border city of Hoeryong.

Park was quoted by activists who went with the border as shouting when he went across: “I am an American citizen. I am bringing God’s love. God loves you.” The activists asked not to be named due to security concerns.

Park told to Reuters in Seoul earlier this week that he saw it as his duty as a Christian to make the journey and did not want the U.S. government to try to free him. “I don’t want President Obama to come and pay to get me out. But I want the North Korean people to be free,” Park said on Wednesday before departing for China.

“Until the concentration camps are liberated, I do not want to come out. If I have to die with them, I will. (For) these innocent men, women and children, as Christians, we need to take the cross for them. The cross means that we sacrifice our lives for the redemption of others,” he said. [Reuters, Jon Herskovitz]

You’re on your own making sense of that one. Obviously, Park willfully confronted a grave risk, and it’s entirely possible he won’t come back from North Korea for a very long time, if ever. He doesn’t want to be ransomed out, and I hope (but doubt) there will be general agreement that he shouldn’t be. Yet given the amount of criticism heaped on Laura Ling and Euna Lee, Park will probably draw much harsher criticism and evoke less sympathy. If Park’s goal was to strike a blow against the North Korean regime, it’s far more likely that he’ll end up being traded back to a tool like Bill Richardson for a ransom paid in the form of money, diplomatic concessions, and political legitimacy. The only winners will be North Korea’s most opportunistic apologists in America and Kim Jong Il, who will again show everyone how magnanimous he can be toward our foolish children … for the right price. Park’s stunt will assuredly set back the very cause he claims to want to advance.

Some links in Korean here and here.

I’ve posted a copy of what’s purported to be Park’s statement below the fold.

Update: The description of Park’s bizarre behavior as he crossed the border further calls into question just what he hoped to accomplish, and whether that hope is remotely realistic.

A 29-year-old American Christian, claiming God showed him a vision of North Korea’s liberation and redemption, has entered the country to urge leader Kim Jong-Il to repent, activists said Saturday. Robert Park, a US citizen of Korean ancestry, crossed the frozen Tumen River from China and walked into the North without permission on Christmas Day, they said.

“While crossing the frozen river in a snowstorm, Park shouted loud, saying “ËœI’m a US citizen, I came here to proclaim God’s love’,” a colleague of Park’s told AFP, quoting others who saw Park cross the border. “But all were silent on the other side of the river. We assume he was arrested by North Korean border guards there. But we don’t know about his fate,” he said on condition of anonymity.

Park, a self-proclaimed seer and activist, is a leader of an international campaign for North Korean human rights called “Freedom and Life For All North Koreans: 2009,” his colleague said. The group describes itself as a worldwide coalition of Christian ministries and activists working to promote human rights in the North.

Park reportedly carried a letter addressed to Kim and other leaders calling on them to repent. “I proclaim Christ’s love and forgiveness towards you today. God promises mercy and clemency for those who repent,” Park said in the letter, which was made public Saturday. “He loves you and wants to save you and all of North Korea today,” he said.

US embassy officials said they had no information on the reported incident. [AFP]

There are many brave Christian activists who risk lengthy terms in Chinese prisons to help guide North Korean refugees to safety, smuggle Bibles into North Korea, support its underground house churches, and propagate the blasphemy that there are gods greater than Kim Jong Il (a particularly worthy one is Helping Hands Korea). Those groups are doing much to help North Korea’s most vulnerable people and subvert its brutal system from the bottom up. One of those activists, Steve Kim, recently spent four years in a Chinese prison for sheltering North Korean refugees. Park, by contrast, seems to be one whose madness happened to find a vehicle in religion.

As easy as it is for us to reject the ridiculous notion that this quixotic act might cause Kim Jong Il to repent and experience a religious conversion, Park’s madness is only a few degrees removed from our foreign policy establishment’s faith that the right Special Envoy can inspire Kim Jong Il to repent and experience a diplomatic conversion. Scratch almost anyone in the State Department’s East Asia Bureau today and there’s a Robert Park who thinks that he’s The One who can do it. No doubt, as we speak, junior and has-been diplomats all along the Eastern Seaboard are imagining themselves escorting Robert Park up the steps of a charter flight at Sunan Airport, having left behind enough ransom aid to run a small concentration camp for years.

Here’s Robert Park’s manifesto:

To Mr. Kim Jong Il and North Korea’s Leaders:

I proclaim Christ’s love and forgiveness towards you today. God promises mercy and clemency for those who repent. He promises forgiveness for every sin and re-birth through the Holy Spirit for those who believe Christ died for the atonement of all their sins, as a sacrifice from God, given in love. He is the true and living God. He loves you and wants to save you and all of North Korea today. Please open your borders so that we may bring food, provisions, medicine, necessities, and assistance to those who are struggling to survive.. Please close down all concentration camps and release all political prisoners today, and allow care teams to enter to minister healing to those who have been tortured and traumatized.

All we are asking is for all North Koreans to be free, safe and have life.

With Love, Respect and Goodwill Towards All People,
> Robert Park
> 12/25/2009
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> 우리는 북í•œ얐ì„œ 더 이상ìËœ 민족학살이 자í–‰ëËœÃ«Å ” ê²Æ’ìâ€ž 묵과í•  수 얆습니다. 1995ë…„ 이래 4백ë§Å’ìËœ 북í•œ 인민들이 ê¹â‚¬Ã¬ â€¢Ã¬¼ ì â€¢Ãª¶Å’얐 ìËœÃ­â€¢´ 학살ëËœÃ¬–ˆìœ¼Ã«©°, 백ë§Å’ëªâ€¦ 이상ìËœ 인민들이 ì â€¢Ã¬¹ËœÃ«²” 수용소얐ì„œ ê°â€¢Ã¬ Å“ 노ëâ„¢Ãª³¼, ê°â€¢Ãª°â€ž, 고문, 기ì•„ 및 ì²ËœÃ­Ëœâ€¢Ã¬– ìËœÃ­â€¢´ 살해ëËœÃ¬–ˆìŠµÃ«â€¹Ë†Ã«â€¹¤. 이런 극악무ëâ€žÃ­â€¢Å“ 수용소ìËœ 존재는 북í•œì â€¢Ãª¶Å’이 ë¶Ë†Ã«²â€¢Ã¬ Ã¬´Ãª³  ë²”ì£â€žÃ¬ Ã¬´Ã«©° 결ì½” 용납될 수 얆다는 ê²Æ’ìâ€ž 보얬주ë©° 이는 ì¦â€°Ãª°Ã¬ Ã¬¸ 국ì Å“사회ìËœ ê°Å“ìž…ìâ€ž í•„ìš”ë¡Å“ 합니다.
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> 우리들ìâ‚¬ 국ì Å“ë²â€¢Ãª³¼ 우주적인 인ê¶Å’선언얐 근거하ì–¬ 다ìÅ’ê³¼ ê°â„¢Ã¬´ 요구합니다.
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> 1) ì¦â€°Ãª°Ã¬ Ã¬´Ãª³  ì â€žÃ¬ Ã¬¸ 북í•œ ì â€¢Ã¬¹ËœÃ«²” 수용소ìËœ 폐쇠를 요구합니다.
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> 2) 노예와 ê°â„¢Ã¬´ 굶주림ê³¼ 고문등얐 희생ëÅ“ 모ë“  북í•œ인민들ê³¼ ì â€¢Ã¬¹ËœÃ«²” 수용소얐ì„œ 살ì•„ 남ìâ‚¬ 북í•œ인민들얐ê²Å’ 그들ìËœ 고통ê³¼ 상ì²ËœÃ«“¤Ã¬â€ž 보상하ê³  ì¹ËœÃ¬Å“ Ã­â€¢´Ã¬£¼Ãª¸¸ 요구합니다.
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> 3) ê¹â‚¬Ã¬ â€¢Ã¬¼Ãª³¼ 그ìËœ 추ì¢â€¦Ã¬Å¾Ã«“¤Ã¬â‚¬ ì¦â€°Ãª°Ã¬ Ã¬Å“¼Ã«¡Å“ ê¶Å’ì¢Å’얐ì„œ 내려올 ê²Æ’ìâ€ž 요구합니다.
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> ì â€ž 북í•œ인민ìËœ 자유와 생ëªâ€¦: 2009,
> ì â€ž 세ê³â€ž 북í•œ 인ê¶Å’단ì²´, 인ê¶Å’운ëâ„¢Ãª°â‚¬ 및 선교단ì²´ 얰í•©