North Korean authorities had kidnapped an American student media

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Власти Северной Кореи похитили американского студента - СМИDavid Sneddon disappeared 12 years ago.

Family of student who disappeared during a trip to China in 2004, recently received the hope of seeing him alive. That he is alive but was abducted by the North Korean government, writes the Independent.

24-year-old David Sneddon presumed dead after he disappeared in Yunnan province in Western China. Police said a student at one of the universities of Utah probably drowned in the river on 14 August 2004.

However, on Wednesday, August 31, Yahoo News Japan announced that Sneddon been seen in North Korea, where he most likely lives and works as an English teacher. He also has a wife and two children.

The U.S. state Department immediately made a statement about the search of Sneddon in North Korea. Choi sung-Yong, who heads the Association of families of the abducted, said that the guy was actually abducted by North Korean operatives and worked as a tutor in English for Kim Jong-UN, who was then the heir of the dictatorship in the country.

Sneddon parents, Roy and Kathleen, never believed the official version of the death of his son. Knowing the reputation of North Korea regarding the abduction of foreigners, they believed that the security services were interested in their son because of his knowledge of Korean speech, which he used in his time as a Mormon missionary in South Korea. 12 years Sneddon constantly addressed to American officials with requests to investigate the disappearance of their son.

“We just knew in my heart that he is alive, so we had to keep fighting,” said Mrs. Sneddon Deseret News Utah.

Representatives of the state of Utah had previously called on Congress to investigate the circumstances of the disappearance of Sneddon, and confirm whether he was abducted by North Korea.

“The data show that there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the disappearance of David”, – said the representative of the intelligence Committee of the US house of representatives Chris Stewart. “The family of David deserves to get answers to these questions, and until we find them, I will continue to urge the State Department to use all possible measures to clarify the circumstances of the disappearance of David”, he added.

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