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Activist No Su-hui, center, shouts "Long Live Reunification" in front of North Korean officials and soldiers, foreground, before crossing the demarcation line between North and South Korea where South Korean officials, at rear, were waiting for him, at the Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom on July 5, 2012.
Reuters reports — South Korean authorities arrested a pro-North Korea activist as he walked across the rival states' heavily armed border on Thursday ending an unauthorized visit to Pyongyang in alleged violation of a bitterly disputed anti-communism law.
Ro Su-hui, who is a leader of a South Korean group that has maintained friendly ties with North Korean groups, had spent more than three months in Pyongyang attending national events that glorified its two dead leaders and criticized Seoul.
"While in the North I have felt that the North where the leader and the people form a harmonious whole will surely build a thriving nation thanks to political stability and strong economic potential," Ro was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the North's official KCNA news agency. Read the full story.
Kim Kwang Hyon / AP
No Su-hui, left, waves a flag depicting a unified Korean Peninsula to a crowd of North Korean supporters before crossing the demarcation line into South Korea on July 5, 2012.
Kim Kwang Hyon / AP
No Su-hui, center, is detained by South Korean officials as North Korean officials, foreground, look on, immediately after No crossed the demarcation line on July 5, 2012. South Korean police arrested the activist for making an extended trip to Pyongyang without South Korean government approval as required by law.
Dong-A Ilbo / AFP - Getty Images
Ro Su-hui is led away tied up and cuffed by South Korean security officials towards a police station in the border city of Paju on July 5, 2012.
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What a moron.
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I wonder if he ventured to leave the city that restricted his views to one of political and cultural unity, and visit the North Korean countryside.
No's brain is clouded by maudlin emotional delusions.
What happend to Political freedom and free speach? We dont have to aggree, but this is his right...
Fool, Do you understand that those two freedoms are only good to the North side but not to the South. Because South is our friend. We should cover up all what our friends are doing.
Aw, do you too need to step out of your rooms and actually find out something about the world? There, there, you won't find it in your book, now. Might want to try going somewhere.
@Just an old man,
Political freedom and free speech is only good from North Korea?!!!? What rock have you been under? Any political dissent in NK will be met with death or decades in hard labor!
@Just an old man, you do know that the 2 Koreas are still in a state of war? That is why that restrictions on travel is in effect.
I'm not really a fan of communism, at the same time I think anti-communism is a parody in of itself.
I wasn't there, and don't know what the reason was for putting ropes on him. It looks overdone just like when in America Andrew Meyer asked John Kerry about skull and crossbones was tased by university police and said, "Don't tase me, bro!"
But ... this activist needs to be questioned. Since he is pro-North Korea, he needs to be seen if he is a threat because simply put, he is a believer in the enemy. We are still at war.
Ignorant, he is not pro-N. Korea, he is pro-reunification.
Without social activism there cannot be any progress in the world. I am not here speaking about the progress of the products of the civilization. Progress means the progress of the human perception. At present the majority of the people all over the world are controlled by ancient perceptions. The present political demarcations of the people and countries come out of the ignorance promoted by the regimes for their own ulterior ends. Mankind has only one common ancestry and that is the human birth. It has no political views and parochial perceptions. Mankind, like all other forms of life, is controlled by the principle of life that we find in the world that supports all forms of life on this planet.
That's all very true, but it's the North that needs more activists, not the South.
I don't think it's right that the S. Korean government arrested him, but if a northerner tried to pull something like this he'd probably have been shot by now by his government.
It's NICE he has the FREEDOM to go to North Korea or anywhere he wanted. It would be JUST AS NICE IF any North Korean could go to the South or anywhere they wanted. ANOTHER HUMAN BEING who only sees what he wants to see. He is right. The North is one, big, happy, harmonious society BECAUSE the people are ruled over with an iron fist and kept in place by fear and terror. Just like visiting that nice family where everyone smiles and is polite and it all seems so great AND when no one else is around, DAD beats the wife and molests the kids. Harmonious. Huh?
look close at the first photo......one of the military guys is texting..............ROFLOL
do they think rope makes a better photo than just the handcuffs.......ROFLOL
smells of publicity stunt !
Both sides of this fiasco are beyond the pale. This is another culture I wouldn't trust as far as I could tie a rope around them.
Even south korea has their diphit liberals I see ..
The top picture in the article is curiously amusing to me. All the North Koreans in the image look either incredibly bored, like they have no idea what they're doing there or why someone is taking pictures, or they look utterly perplexed, as if they've never seen an actual example of human hope and exuberance before.
Seriously though, it was pretty messed up to arrest the guy. What's the world coming to where you can't implicitly support brutal authoritarian regimes without risking arrest?
If I was South Korea I would not have accepted him back, just let him stay in la-la land
The North Korean "government" probably staged this demonstration like everything else in that hell hole. If, as the article says, he is a South Korean, his urging reunification is welcomed by the north. The north is a deteriorating dictatorship that can't sink much lower. Reunification under the current boy king would destroy South Korea and expand his and his general's kingdom and weath. We spent enough lives and $$ to create this mess and should stay out of it this time. Let them fight their own battle which will eventually happen.
MSNBC get your priorities straight ... didn't the South Koreans pass a law that lets them hunt whales for "scientific research" why are you afraid to report negative stories on our little pet in Asia?? Man up.. Who cares about this guy seriously?? don't you think that the government making a law that allows savages to hunt whales that are already in serious depletion a story more worthy of reporting than this garbage'???
What a ghastly mistake! The North Koreans are likely broadcasting this throughout their country. What a huge propaganda coup! What a gift to North Korea! How stupid can the South Koreans be?
Wow I thought South Korea was a democratically free country, obviously I was very wrong. Who cares if some wingnut crosses the border to the North, LOL. This does now totally change my view of South Korea I think both countries have more in common than they realize the main one being they both suck hardcore. South Korea will never see me in their country. The North is totally out to lunch and I see the made up laws of the South are making it catch up at a good rate, nothing like stripping freedoms because you hate each other eh? Idiots.
I don't agree with this man's politics any more than I can believe those North Koreans in the photo represent the bulk of the population. Still, to cuff this man and then to tie him with rope is not only uncalled for but inhumane.
Stupid laws. Stupid politicians. Another Amerikan ally.
"While in the North I have felt that the North where the leader and the people form a harmonious whole will surely build a thriving nation thanks to political stability and strong economic potential," Ro was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the North's official KCNA news agency.
Um, no.
People are starving there Captain Dumbass.