Yanji

Nobody is asking “Who hired that local guide in Yanji?”

Global Voices in English » North Korea: Two American Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor 2009

Nobody is asking the South Korean activists familiar with that local guide in Yanji to elaborate on their suspicions.

Global Voices in English » North Korea: Two American Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor 2009

Spelunker: “So then it’s not unreasonable to assume that the ethnic Korean citizen of China that led Current TV’s crew to the Tumen River border on the morning of their departure from Yanji to Dandong could have been acting on an extremely high bounty after tipping off Pyongyang agents that 3 US passport holding journalists were in Yanji interviewing North Korean refugees.”

Global Voices in English » North Korea: Two American Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor 2009

What evidence would you like that could prove once and for all that the local guide in Yanji played a part in the capture of Current TV’s crew?

Global Voices in English » North Korea: Two American Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor 2009

See my comments on CNN’s AC360 blog and underneath NPR’s online articles for insight and theories involving the silence of Current TV and the apparent disappearance of the ethnic Korean (citizen of China) local guide in Yanji who led the Current TV crew into danger.

Global Voices in English » USA: Journalists to Stand Trial in North Korea 2009

A handful of well-dressed North Korean officials were seen by a reporter paying their respects to their deceased leader at the Liujing Hotel in Yanji, a modern high-rise in the city center, outside which several black Audi sedans with tinted windows were parked.

Trade Binds North Korea to China Jeremy Page 2011

Carlos Barria/Reuters The cruise would ferry tourists from Rason, which is a few hours' drive from the Chinese city of Yanji, to Mount Kumgang near the Demilitarized Zone dividing the Koreas.

A North Korean Cruise 2011

Reverend Chun and another pastor who lives in Los Angeles (Shin Dong-chul), claim that both China and North Korea have spied on their e-mail and telephone communications for many years, so Reverend Chun believes North Korea monitored the moves of the 2 reporters in Yanji and waited for the opportunity to take action when they reached the ice of the frozen Tumen River.

Global Voices in English » North Korea: Two American Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor 2009

The impact of those economic ties are evident in the Chinese border town of Yanji.

Trade Binds North Korea to China Jeremy Page 2011

"That's new," said one long-term foreign resident of the Yanji area, who declined to be identified.

Trade Binds North Korea to China Jeremy Page 2011