S. Korean who helped U.S. activist enter N. Korea arrested in China: source

SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean national who helped a U.S. human rights
activist cross into North Korea last month has been arrested in China, a local
source said Sunday.
Kim Sung-min, head of the Seoul-based Radio Free North Korea, told Yonhap News
Agency that a person identified only by his family name of Kim was arrested
Friday by Chinese police at his hiding place in the city of Yanji.
Kim reportedly guided Robert Park over the border and took live footage of the
event.
Personal details about Kim are not known, but he escaped from North Korea and
lived in South Korea before joining a civic group dedicated to highlighting human
rights conditions in the communist country.
"He was probably arrested as an accomplice to Park and could be prosecuted and
punished," the head of the radio broadcasting company said. The executive did not
confirm whether the footage of the border-crossing was confiscated during the
arrest.
Robert Park, 28, voluntarily entered the North on Dec. 25 to draw international
attention to the human rights record of the isolationist country, which is
believed to maintain several concentration camps holding tens of thousands of
political prisoners.
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