American David Sneddon missing 12 years ago in China, said in the capital of North Korea.
24-year-old College student David Sneddon who disappeared in 2004 in China, was abducted by North Korean government for the teaching English to Kim Jong-UN.
The 24-year-old David Sneddon was considered 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, the body they found,” – said in the message.
Wednesday, 31 August, Yahoo News Japan announced that Sneddon been seen in North Korea, where it as believe, lives.
It is reported that he works as an English teacher, he has a wife and two children.
The US state Department has announced that they will begin the search for Sneddon in North Korea.
Choi sung-Yong, who heads the Association of families of the abducted, said that Sneddon was really kidnapped 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 in terms of abduction of foreigners, they believed that the security services were interested in their son because of his knowledge of the Korean language, which he used in his time as a Mormon missionary in South Korea.
For 12 years Sneddon constantly addressed to the us 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 in 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 take all possible measures to clarify the circumstances of the disappearance of David”, he added.
