{"id":38702,"date":"2013-12-03T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38702"},"modified":"2013-12-03T08:07:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:07:21","slug":"vet-detained-by-norks-advised-guerrillas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38702","title":{"rendered":"Vet detained by Norks advised guerrillas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/detained-us-vet-in-nkorea-oversaw-guerrilla-group\/2013\/12\/03\/b51af4f8-5be8-11e3-801f-1f90bf692c9b_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports that the veteran who is imprisoned in North Korea, Merrill Newman, was actually an adviser to North Korean guerrillas fighting against the Stalinist government 60 years ago. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cWhy did he go to North Korea?\u201d asked Park Boo Seo, a former member of the Kuwol partisan unit, which is still loathed in Pyongyang and glorified in Seoul for the damage it inflicted on the North during the war. \u201cThe North Koreans still gnash their teeth at the Kuwol unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Park and several other former guerrillas said they recognized Newman from his past visits to Seoul in 2003 and 2010 \u2014 when they ate raw fish and drank soju, Korean liquor \u2014 and from the TV footage, which was also broadcast in South Korea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, yeah, he shouldn&#8217;t have been detained, but communists have long memories. The Russians still mistrust us for our efforts to rescue the Czech Legion in 1920, for Pete&#8217;s sake. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll trade him for some free fuel oil, or maybe they&#8217;ll take Dennis Rodman for him. Or Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that the veteran who is imprisoned in North Korea, Merrill Newman, was &hellip; <a title=\"Vet detained by Norks advised guerrillas\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38702\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vet detained by Norks advised guerrillas<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}