All posts tagged "kenneth bae"

  • This photo provided by Derek Sciba shows Kenneth Bae, center, and his mother Myunghee Bae, in red coat, praying with other family members after his release from North Korea, Saturday Nov. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Derek Sciba)
    Kenneth Bae, detained 2 years in North Korea, releasing book

    SEATTLE (AP) — Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen who was detained in North Korea for two years before his release last November, plans to tell his story in a book. W Publishing Group, an imprint of the...

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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    North Korea rejects U.S. offer to send envoy for Kenneth Bae

    WASHINGTON (AP) – North Korea is not accepting American offers to send a high-level envoy to seek the release of three detained Americans including a Lynnwood, Wash., man , a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. Robert King,...

    • Posted September 18, 2014
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    U.S. Congressmen pushing for expanded family reunions

    By Kang Seung-woo Four Korean War veterans who are now United States congressmen have called on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to expand reunions of families separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War to include Korean-Americans. South and...

    • Posted February 6, 2014
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    Kerry meets family of Kenneth Bae, urges N. Korea to free him

    (Yonhap) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Tuesday with the family of a Korean-American man jailed in North Korea, apparently in a show of the U.S. government’s commitment to efforts to win his release. “There is no...

    • Posted January 29, 2014
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  • The U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, on right, criticized the former NBA player Dennis Rodman's moves in North Korea during his CNN interview on Tuesday. / Courtesy of CNN Tuesday. / Courtesy of CNN
    Senator McCain: “Rodman is an idiot”

    By Ko Dong-hwan The U.S. Republican Senator John McCain called Dennis Rodman an “idiot.” The former National Basketball Association’s ‘Bad Boy’ is currently visiting North Korea to realize his friendly basketball match, and in his two minute-long...

    • Posted January 9, 2014
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