Korean-American missionary, Robert Park, has returned to the U.S. after having been held in captivity in North Korea for 43 days.  He crossed a frozen river between the Chinese and North Korean border to deliver a message of regime change.

Robert Park, of Tucson, Ariz., crossed the frozen Tumen River from China into North Korea on Dec. 25, carrying letters calling on leaderKim Jong Il to close the country’s notoriously brutal prison camps and step down from power. Those acts could have risked execution in the hardline communist country.

It was either brave or stupid for Robert Park to attempt what he did but we can all agree that North Korea does need a regime change.  It is an “Axis of Evil” that starves its people and holds the world hostage with its nuclear intentions.  It is one of the harshest regimes on the planet and sadly, it appears that the young Robert Park was under great distress while in North Korea as his views apparently changed over the course of 43 days in captivity.

The family didn’t have time during their brief airport reunion to ask whether he had been mistreated by North Korean officials, Paul Park said. They also didn’t get a chance to ask him about a statement that North Korea attributed to him on Friday, he said.

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency quoted Park as saying he was ashamed of the “biased” view he once held of the country.

Robert Park said he was now convinced “there’s complete religious freedom for all people everywhere” in North Korea, citing the return of the Bible he carried as he entered the country and a service he attended at Pongsu Church in Pyongyang, KCNA said.

“I would not have committed such crime if I had known that the (North) respects the rights of all the people and guarantees their freedom and they enjoy a happy and stable life,” it quoted him as saying.

Read more at Yahoo! News

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