{"id":36629,"date":"2016-09-12T17:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T23:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36629"},"modified":"2016-09-12T17:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T23:46:55","slug":"a-prisoner-in-pyongyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/09\/a-prisoner-in-pyongyang.html","title":{"rendered":"A prisoner in Pyongyang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36630\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/Kim-Il-Sung-Kim-Jong-Il-web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36630\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36630\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/Kim-Il-Sung-Kim-Jong-Il-web-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Two Kims\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, respectively the grandfather and father of the current Dear Leader of the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (North Korea), on Mansu Hill (Wikimedia Commons, J. 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They ruled in succession from the establishment of the DPRK in 1948 until 1994, and from 1994 until 2011, when the current Dear Leader assumed the role.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some further information on that case of the young returned missionary from Utah who may have been kidnapped twelve years ago to serve as an involuntary tutor to Kim Jong-un:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/news-on-david-sneddon-former-missionary.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cNews on David Sneddon: Former Missionary May Have Paid a Heavy Price for Fluency in Korean\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpfinddavid.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWhat You Can Do to Bring David Home \u2014 Missing U.S. Student David Sneddon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Some further information on that case of the young returned missionary from Utah who may have been kidnapped twelve years ago to serve as an involuntary tutor to Kim Jong-un: \u00a0 \u201cNews on David Sneddon: Former Missionary May Have Paid a Heavy Price for Fluency in Korean\u201d \u00a0 \u201cWhat You Can Do to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A prisoner in Pyongyang?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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