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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (509826)	9/2/2009 4:22:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) of 1582937

In the days before our capture, our guide had seemed cautious and responsible; he was as concerned as we were about protecting our interview subjects and not taking unnecessary risks. That is in part why we made the decision to follow him across the river. We didn't spend more than a minute on North Korean soil before turning back, but it is a minute we deeply regret. To this day, we still don't know if we were lured into a trap. In retrospect, the guide behaved oddly, changing our starting point on the river at the last moment and donning a Chinese police overcoat for the crossing, measures we assumed were security precautions. But it was ultimately our decision to follow him, and we continue to pay for that decision today with dark memories of our captivity. I will never understand such naiveté. First of all, to cross a frozen river in the middle of March is really a stupid gesture.....even for women who grew up in CA. Presumbably their guide knew the condition of the frozen ice but typically in March temps. are rising and river ice is thinning very quickly. They were lucky not to fall through the ice. But more importantly what the hell were they thinking? Two women in their 30s.....not kids.......allowed themselves to be talked into crossing into a notorious dictatorship.....for what? For a story that was hardly enhanced by such a move. Frankly, I see this as very stupid. They are lucky they got out relatively unscathed. They remind me of some American grad students I was traveling with right before Eastern Europe started to fall. We were in West Germany and they wanted to cross East Germany into Poland to see Kracow....for its architecture. I wanted to see Kracow as well but my German friends at the time were saying things were too unsettled in the GDR and Poland and to stay away. Well the grad students decided to go inspite of that advice. They were supposed to be there for only a few days. However, three weeks had passed and nada. It turned out that one had had his passport stolen. While waiting to get a new one, they were stuck in some boder town. Food was in short supply, little if any was in the stores, and they were literally starving when they got back to West Germany. The trip was a nightmare and they never got to see Kracow.

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