US implores Americans not to visit NKorea (with funny message)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gupUNIVDFr4AOnPoBN2Ir6h2q8tQD9HS3GLG0

WASHINGTON — The State Department on Friday urged Americans to respect its warning against traveling to North Korea, saying in a cheeky Twitter message that there are not too many former U.S. presidents left available for rescue missions.

In a Tweet posted shortly after former President Jimmy Carter arrived in Boston from North Korea with American Aijalon Gomes who had been detained in the communist country for seven months, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said: "Americans should heed our travel warning and avoid North Korea. We only have a handful of former presidents."

His message referred to the fact that Carter was the second former U.S. president to travel to North Korea in the past year to win the release of American citizens imprisoned there. Last August, former President Bill Clinton secured the release of two television reporters who had been arrested for illegally entering North Korea.

Carter's trip means that the only living former presidents not to have rescued Americans imprisoned in North Korea are George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush.

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[formercia]

1. Maybe the DPRK will keep Junior and turn him over to the Hague.

:rofl:

[DCKit]

2. OMG: N. Korea Arrests W* on War Crimes Charges...

It should happen.

[mike r]

3. It's like those people who go around barricades at low water crossings and

expect to be rescued.