Seo Ok-Ryol, now 90 years old, insists he has “done nothing wrong but loved the fatherland” and has spent most his sentence in solitary confinement. Despite being in what is now South Korea, where he still has relatives, he has no desire to stay and wants to return to Kim Jong-un’s tyrannical regime to die. […]
Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now aged 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home — to North Korea. Born in the South, where he still has relatives, then a soldier and spy for the
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GWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) – Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now aged 90, the only thing he wants to do before he dies is go home – to North Korea. Born in the South, where he still has relatives,
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President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing on the opioid crisis, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (Photo: Evan Vucci, AP) After President Trump vowed “fire and fury” in response to threats from North Korea, people in the United States flocked to the internet to research what this might mean. And the phrases
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The Lincoln County Commissioners on Monday signed off on a bid from Hollman Media to revamp the Visit North Platte website. “Ours is 5 years old so it’s pretty dated,” said Lisa Burke with the Lincoln County/North Platte Visitors Bureau. Two other companies made bids to upgrade the website. The tourism bureau’s advisory board selected
